649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Strength is the outcome of need.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.