H. G. Wells Quotes about War

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H. G. Wells

Time, Peace, War

H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

H. G. Wells

War, Gun, Men

H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

H. G. Wells

War, Age, Revolution

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.5437, Delphi Classics

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

H. G. Wells

Military, War, Men

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14923, Delphi Classics

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

H. G. Wells

War, Men, Thinking

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

H. G. Wells

War, Men, Ants

H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated War of the Worlds with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.190, Powell Publications, LLC

We must end war before war ends us.

H. G. Wells

War, Ends

The War That Will End War.

H. G. Wells

War, Ends

Title of book (1914). Cf. David Lloyd-George 138:8

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

H. G. Wells

Kings, War, Germany

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.17075, Delphi Classics

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

H. G. Wells

War, Hands, People

H.G. Wells (1914). “the World Set Free”

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

H. G. Wells

Hurt, War, Achievement

H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

H. G. Wells

War, Men, Thinking

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

H. G. Wells

War, Army, Air

H. G. Wells (2015). “Anticipations: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.97, 谷月社

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

H. G. Wells

Dream, Peace, War

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.2054, e-artnow

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

H. G. Wells

War, Fleeing, Madness

"The Door in the Wall".

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

H. G. Wells

War, Hero, Fighting

H. G. Wells (2015). “The World Set Free: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.62, 谷月社

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

H. G. Wells

War, World, Growing

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.7531, e-artnow