H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.