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Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
H.G. WELLS, A Modern Utopia
Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.
H.G. WELLS, The Time Machine
The uglier a man's legs are the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. WELLS, The Outline of History
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H.G. WELLS, The Discovery of the Future
We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.
H. G. WELLS, "A Dream of Armageddon"
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
H. G. WELLS, "The Diamond Maker"
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H.G. WELLS, A Modern Utopia
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