Our true State [...] must be now this nascent Federal World State [...]. Our true nationality is mankind.
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The Outline of History, 1919
Herbert George Wells citations célèbres
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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898
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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898
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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898
And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898
Herbert George Wells: Citations en anglais
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 16: How the Beast Folk Tasted Blood
“The Boss: You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.”
Things to Come (1936)
“How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.”
"The Star", final line, first published in The Graphic, Christmas issue (1897)
“Our true nationality is mankind.”
Source: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 41
“For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.”
Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 10, sect. 1
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains
“Rowena: You’ve got the subtlety of a bullfrog.”
Things to Come (1936)
Source: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 20: At the House In Great Portland Street
"What I Believe", The Listener, 1929. Quoted in Clifton Fadiman, I Believe, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1940.
The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)
“The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.”
Bealby: A Holiday (1915)
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk
“An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.”
The Temptaion of Harringay (1929)
Book I, Ch. 7: How I Reached Home
The War of the Worlds (1898)
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.”
The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19