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| b7eb87e | And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one form or another he has been asking for an unrestricted share in the universal welfare. He has been asking for a fair dividend from civilisation. For all that time, and still it goes on, the advantaged people, the satisfied people, the kings and p.. | humanity order humankind justice power | H.G. Wells | |
| 83f9f63 | I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. A | H.G. Wells | ||
| 8939523 | So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 6e355e2 | And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained | H.G. Wells | ||
| 94507c0 | There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 716cb57 | you have saved my life." "Chance," he answered. "Just chance." "I prefer to make my thanks to the accessible agent." "Thank no one. You had the need, and I had the knowledge; and I injected and fed you much as I might have collected a specimen. I was bored and wanted something to do. If I'd been jaded that day, or hadn't liked your face, well -- it's a curious question where you would have been now!" This damped my mood a little. "At" | H.G. Wells | ||
| c1eaa56 | integrity coop credulity divines dreadful catholic-church luminous martyrs christendom catholic sages believers catholicism submission cruelty realization church shame lie contempt ritual ugly hell | H.G. Wells | ||
| 3eb09c3 | By our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger, and death. But did he see like that? | H.G. Wells | ||
| 2965b23 | Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth? | H.G. Wells | ||
| 26384cd | He sighed and looked about him. 'This is no world for men,' he said. 'And yet in a way...it appeals. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 8cca9eb | but I know it was a dull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its head and down its back. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 234257a | I wonder," said Graham. Ostrog stared. Must the world go this way?" said Graham, with his emotions at the speaking point. "Must it indeed go in this way? Have all our hopes been vain?" What do you mean?" said Ostrog. "Hopes?" I came from a democratic age. And I find an aristocratic tyranny!" Well, -- but you are the chief tyrant." Graham shook his head." | H.G. Wells | ||
| cd5f555 | What is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark? | H.G. Wells | ||
| d3e5bd6 | when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 0ecf0bd | It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 2bd063b | He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating. | H.G. Wells | ||
| d4526b1 | I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that is another matter. | H G Wells | ||
| 00537d9 | If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked. | thoughts ideas | H.G. Wells | |
| cae768a | Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature. | H.G. Wells | ||
| d885481 | They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don't know how to set about changing it. The country is dying for some sort of lead, and so far all it is getting is a crowd of fresh professional leaders. Who never get anywhere. Who do not seem to be aiming anywhere. We are living in a world of jaded politics. Poverty increases, prices rise, unemployment spreads, mines, factories stagnate, and nothing is done. | politics society | H.G. Wells | |
| caf5aed | Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it. | H.G. Wells | ||
| f6aa7f0 | Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal. | H.G. Wells | ||
| afa0fe3 | He showed it to me with all the confiding zest of a man who has been living too much alone. This seclusion was overflowing now in an excess of confidence, and I had the good luck to be the recipient. | H.G. Wells | ||
| f07dc16 | I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done. | H.G. Wells | ||
| bad1ae7 | A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 3c92d5f | The history of mankind," said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the common man by the men he has trusted." "By the men the lazy, haphazard, childish oaf was too wilfully stupid to mistrust," said Bodisham. "The history of mankind from the very beginning has been a history of over-trusted trustees, corrupted by their unchecked opportunities." | trust leaders corruption humankind | H.G. Wells | |
| 92be658 | I had never realised it before, but the nose is to the mind of a dog what the eye is to the mind of a seeing man. Dogs perceive the scent of a man moving as men perceive his vision. This | H.G. Wells | ||
| 432ada0 | Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully. | science irresponsibility horror | H.G. Wells | |
| 66208f3 | Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the suggestion that only a very small proportion of people are capable of acquiring new ideas of political or social behaviour after they are twenty-five years old. On the other hand, few people become directive in these matters until they are between forty and fifty. Then they prevail for twenty years or more. The conduct of public affairs therefore i.. | war history stagnation ideas power | H.G. Wells | |
| 3ca9260 | Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it. I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised. Although it was at my own expense, I could not help myself. I laughed aloud. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 0b054f6 | Indeed Christianity passes. Passes--it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand... | churches arianism cathedrals crucifixes intolerances sea-urchin shrines outdated litter harmful toxic prejudices theologians pollution plague egypt | H.G. Wells | |
| 14b3eeb | Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind. | war politics peace-on-earth politicians | H.G. Wells | |
| 8228899 | For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which every day was tedious, and when they were gone it was as if they had gone in a flash. | time-flies wasted-life | H.G. Wells | |
| 46f69cc | Time is only a kind of Space. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 0ae4f20 | At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 5d2226b | I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The | H.G. Wells | ||
| 0c53211 | What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do. | H.G. Wells | ||
| d25422a | One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the.. | extinction dead | H.G. Wells | |
| a926068 | Where there is no derision the people perish," said Chiffan. "Now who said that?" asked Steenhold, always anxious to check his quotations. "It sounds familiar." "I said it," said Chiffan. "Get on with your suggestions." | free-speech protest | H.G. Wells | |
| 92bd69f | The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. | H.G. Wells | ||
| ae181ef | What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit. | life inner-life thought | H.G. Wells | |
| 14d20ac | Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit? | H.G. Wells | ||
| 9201d96 | The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before--it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth..... | power | H.G. Wells | |
| 8f840e8 | N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others, | H.G. Wells |