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The War That Will End War.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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A time will come when a politician who has wilfully 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 mens lives should not stake their own.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Adversity
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Advertising
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Advertising is legalized lying.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Ambition
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Appearance
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Change
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Crime
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Cycling
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Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Cynicism
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Desires
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Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Economics
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Evolution
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Future, The
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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Goodness
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Heaven
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The 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. [Herbert George] Wells
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History
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Humanity
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Man 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. [Herbert George] Wells
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Last Words
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Go away...I'm alright.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Morals
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Patriotism
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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Books by and about H. G. [Herbert George] Wells