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H. G. Wells was a British writer, best known as a pioneer of science fiction literature. His works, such as "The War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine," have profoundly influenced the genre and popular culture. He remains a lasting figure in literary history, renowned for his imaginative and visionary storytelling. Here are 182 of his quotes:

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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space. View quote
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Bah The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. View quote
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He was no mere religious fanatic. For eight and twenty years Asoka worked sanely for the real needs of men. View quote
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There has been ... an enormous waste of human mental and physical resources in premature revolutionary thrusts, ill-planned, dogmatic, essentially unscientific reconstructions and restorations of the social order, during the past hundred years. View quote
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Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit? View quote
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For neither do men live nor die in vain. View quote
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We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. View quote
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And how will the new republic treat the inferior races? View quote
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Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. View quote
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How far can we anticipate the habitations and ways, the usages and adventures, the mighty employments, the ever increasing knowledge and power of the days to come? No more than a child with its scribbling paper and its box of bricks can picture or model the undertakings of its adult years. (H. G. Wells)
More lives were wasted by the British generals alone on the opening day of what is known as the Somme offensive of July, 1916 than in the whole French Revolution from start to finish. View quote
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Phase by phase these ill-adapted governments are becoming uncontrolled absolutisms; they are killing that free play of the individual mind which is the preservative of human efficiency and happiness. View quote
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All the miseries and discontents of life are due, he taught, to selfishness. View quote
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers. View quote
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Money and credit are as much human contrivances as bicycles, and as liable to expansion and modification as any other sort of prevalent but imperfect machine. View quote
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The atomic bomb had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance. View quote
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Ashoka (264 to 227 B.C.), one of the great monarchs of history, whose dominions extended from Afghanistan to Madras... is the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare] after [[victory. View quote
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They may fight against greatness in us who are the children of men, but can they conquer? Even if they should destroy us every one, what then? Would it save them? No! For greatness is abroad, not only in us, not only in the Food, but in the purpose of all things! It is in the nature of all things, it is part of space and time. View quote
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For adaptations based on the novel see The War of the Worlds (disambiguation). View quote
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I am more to the Left than you, Mr. Stalin. (H. G. Wells)
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. View quote
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They may fight against greatness in us who are the children of men, but can they conquer? Even if they should destroy us every one, what then? Would it save them? No! For greatness is abroad, not only in us, not only in the Food, but in the purpose of all things! It is in the nature of all things, it is part of space and time. To grow and still to grow, from first to last that is Being, that is the law of life. What other law can there be? View quote
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. It is the peculiar snare of the perplexed orthodox, and soon Mr. Brumley was in a state of nearly unendurable moral indignation with Sir Isaac for a hundred exaggerations of what he was and of what conceivably he might have done to his silent yet manifestly unsuitably married wife. View quote
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The age of ‘expansion,' the age of European "empires" is near its end. No one who can read the signs of the times in Japan, in India, in China, can doubt it. It ended in America a hundred years ago; it is ending now in Asia; it will end last in Africa, and even in Africa the end draws near. View quote
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Occupation: English Author
Born: September 21, 1866
Died: August 13, 1946
Quotes count: 182
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