Moral indignation is just jealousy with a halo around it.
—H. G. Wells
The future is the shape of things to come.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Tomorrow, The Future
Advertising is legalized lying.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Media, Advertising
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
Topics: Peace
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not—I am not dreaming—it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Peace
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
Topics: Humankind, Humanity
The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it’s heart
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Atheism
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Historians, History
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Research
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
Topics: Appearance
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
—H. G. Wells
Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Religion
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Learning
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. Wells
Topics: Economy, Economics
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
—H. G. Wells
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Night
Militarism and warfare are childish things, if they are not more horrible than anything childish can be. They must become things of the past.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: War
Our true nationality is mankind.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Race, Nationalism, Racism
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Patriotism
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
Topics: Heaven
First we shall want the pupil to understand, speak, read, and write his mother tongue well.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Education
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Change, Acceptance, Nature
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
—H. G. Wells
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Learning
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Suffering
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
—H. G. Wells
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
Topics: Joy
It is good to be a part of life. Just as a sundial counts only the sunny hours, so does life know only that it is living.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Life
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Time Management, Time
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Sex, Humankind
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