Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells 'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.' H. G. Wells fleeing madness war If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. H. G. Wells leisure glimpse world No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it? H. G. Wells believe lying art Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. H. G. Wells patriotism cheer self The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last. H. G. Wells dwarves lasts change We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. H. G. Wells time-machine adaptation pain It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers. H. G. Wells law perfect animal He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. H. G. Wells patriotic england proud We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear. H. G. Wells morrow dear Only people who are well off can be - complex. H. G. Wells complexes wells people 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 achievement hurt war Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. H. G. Wells hell church sailor If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards. H. G. Wells animal men fall Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. H. G. Wells curse life history In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. H. G. Wells vegetarianism animal world The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean. H. G. Wells islands men mean In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. H. G. Wells rely-upon time years An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared. H. G. Wells wealth-of-knowledge house ideas If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting H. G. Wells anything-is-possible ifs interesting One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. H. G. Wells our-world literature evil
