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 More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. H. G. Wells savages men lying You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. H. G. Wells records song trying This blessed gift of smoking! H. G. Wells blessed smoking The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity. H. G. Wells dream opportunity men About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world. H. G. Wells exercise men two With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. H. G. Wells degrees wife wine The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write. H. G. Wells writing average thinking So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. H. G. Wells destiny littles men 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 growing war world The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved. H. G. Wells political brain ideas The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole. H. G. Wells world-government stronger needs Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives. H. G. Wells body people world The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood. H. G. Wells community suffering blood I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made. H. G. Wells doubt two thinking There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken. H. G. Wells learning study education 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 fighting hero war Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. H. G. Wells mystery mother night Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty. H. G. Wells liberty political men No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death! H. G. Wells quiet-people daughter morning Cycle trails will abound in Utopia. H. G. Wells trails cycles utopia
