“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
Failure
“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
WarAll Quotes by H. G. Wells
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
Funny“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
Health“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.”
Nature“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
History“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.”
Teacher“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
Great“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”
Truth“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”
Imagination“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
Jealousy“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
Communication“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Education“A time will come when a politician who has willfully 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 men's lives should not stake their own.”
Men“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”
Knowledge“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
Beauty“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”
Success“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”
Education“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
Education“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”
Death“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
Nature