If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. H. G. Wells research wise men I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be. H. G. Wells understood women imagination The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India. H. G. Wells peaceful india character Strength is the outcome of need. H. G. Wells outcomes strength needs Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. H. G. Wells atheism men civilization I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. H. G. Wells honesty civilization lying Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion. H. G. Wells sacrifice religious self The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young. H. G. Wells educational teaching men The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. H. G. Wells athenians ruins democracy Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another. H. G. Wells life-is writing littles All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. H. G. Wells educated men religion A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history. H. G. Wells opportunity mean children 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 men war Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. H. G. Wells election democracy military I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. H. G. Wells new-year time funny There are no social differences - till women come in. H. G. Wells women differences social The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart. H. G. Wells atheism atheist heart The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel. H. G. Wells lasts special world A young mistress is better than an old master. H. G. Wells mistress masters young You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere. H. G. Wells realizing wine world
