It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.
H.G. WellsThe Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
H.G. WellsAll men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
H.G. WellsIn the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.
H.G. WellsSooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither, they will fight against one another and against these moon people. It will only spread warfare and multiply the occasions of war. In a little while, in a very little while if I tell my secret, this planet to it's deepest galleries will be strewn with human dead. Other things are doubtful, but this is certain...It is not as though man had any use for the moon. 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. No! Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Let him find it out for himself again-in a thousand years' time.
H.G. WellsTags: science-fiction
He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.
H.G. WellsTags: difference tolerance fighting
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
H.G. WellsTags: activism change participation
The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
H.G. WellsWhat is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark?
H.G. WellsMan 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.
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