649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

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.

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.