“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
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
FailureAll Quotes by H. G. Wells
“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”
Best“Advertising is legalized lying.”
Legal“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
Funny“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“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
Beauty“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
Education“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
History“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
Failure“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“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
Health“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Education“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“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
War“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”
Imagination“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
Communication“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
Great“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”
War“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
Nature