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.
- H. G. Wells Quote

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells Quote

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 Quote

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
- H. G. Wells Quote

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. Wells Quote

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H. G. Wells Quote

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
- H. G. Wells Quote

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Quote

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
- H. G. Wells Quote

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
- H. G. Wells Quote

If we don't end war, war will end us.
- H. G. Wells Quote

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
- H. G. Wells Quote

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
- H. G. Wells Quote

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. Wells Quote

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Quote

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
- H. G. Wells Quote

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
- H. G. Wells Quote

Our true nationality is mankind.
- H. G. Wells Quote

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
- H. G. Wells Quote

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. Wells Quote

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
- H. G. Wells Quote

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.
- H. G. Wells Quote

The past is but the past of a beginning.
- H. G. Wells Quote

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
- H. G. Wells Quote

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
- H. G. Wells Quote

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. Wells Quote

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.
- H. G. Wells Quote

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
- H. G. Wells Quote

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
- H. G. Wells Quote