02c. 1895 ADCrude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
06c. 1895 ADNowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later on, as the Common-sense Movement grew, he had to think a lot about that. He had to spread a new system of ideas throughout the world, and journalism would neither instruct nor inform nor lend itself consistently to any sustained propaganda.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
07c. 1895 ADTheir bodies lay flatly on the rocks, and their eyes regarded him with evil interest: but it does not appear that Mr. Fison was afraid, or that he realized that he was in any danger. Possibly his confidence is to be ascribed to the limpness of their attitudes. But he was horrified, of course, and intensely excited and indignant at such revolting creatures preying upon human flesh. He thought they had chanced upon a drowned body. He shouted to them, with the idea of driving them off, and, finding they did not budge, cast about him, picked up a big rounded lump of rock, and flung it at one.And then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards him - creeping at first deliberately, and making a soft purring sound to each other.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
09c. 1895 ADA 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1895 ADCrime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
12c. 1895 ADWe are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
13c. 1895 ADMan is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
14c. 1895 ADThe doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
15c. 1895 ADThere's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
16c. 1895 ADEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
17c. 1895 ADIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
20c. 1895 ADWhile there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
21c. 1895 ADNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
23c. 1895 ADAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
24c. 1895 ADI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.H.G. Wells / quote ↗
