The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past. H. G. Wells cities men past After 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 phrases numbers people Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving. H. G. Wells leaving littles world The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. H. G. Wells community understanding past We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is! H. G. Wells thinking The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men. H. G. Wells powerful strong beautiful Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen. H. G. Wells remains may interesting Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church. H. G. Wells catholic church ignorance In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists. H. G. Wells elderly men book If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history. H. G. Wells educational fashion moving This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur. H. G. Wells men war mean The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed. H. G. Wells mother men father The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over. H. G. Wells air blow men How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. H. G. Wells apocalypse distance may I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away. H. G. Wells running animal men You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess. H. G. Wells bombs artist wish Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. H. G. Wells ambition literature writing It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed. H. G. Wells succeed going-out return [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string. H. G. Wells eggs church light 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
