H.G. Wells Quotes

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

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

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

Lynching is color line murder.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

I don't think I've ever met nachos that I didn't like before. It's almost inconceivable that nachos can be bad. It makes no sense.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

Actions lie louder than words.

Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

Read to your bunny often and your bunny will read to you.

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.