Herbert George Wells citations
Page 4

Herbert George Wells, plus connu sous la signature H. G. Wells, né le 21 septembre 1866 à Bromley dans le Kent et mort le 13 août 1946 à Londres, est un écrivain britannique surtout connu aujourd'hui pour ses romans de science-fiction. Il fut cependant également l'auteur de nombreux romans de satire sociale, d'œuvres de prospective, de réflexions politiques et sociales ainsi que d'ouvrages de vulgarisation touchant aussi bien à la biologie, à l'histoire qu'aux questions sociales. Il est considéré comme le père de la science-fiction contemporaine. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. septembre 1866 – 13. août 1946   •   Autres noms H.G. Wells, Герберт Уэллс
Herbert George Wells photo
Herbert George Wells: 148   citations 0   J'aime

Herbert George Wells citations célèbres

“Notre véritable État […] doit être dès maintenant ce nouvel État fédéral mondial […]. Notre vraie nationalité est le genre humain.”

Our true State [...] must be now this nascent Federal World State [...]. Our true nationality is mankind.
en
The Outline of History, 1919

“Toute la vie est changement.”

Enfants des étoiles, 1939

“Avant que nous les jugions trop sévèrement, nous devons nous souvenir à quelle destruction totale et impitoyable notre propre espèce s'est livrée, non seulement sur les animaux, comme le bison ou le dodo, mais aussi sur ses propres races inférieures. Les Tasmaniens, malgré leur apparence humaine, furent entièrement éliminés en cinquante ans dans une guerre d'extermination menée par des immigrants européens. Sommes nous de tels apôtres de miséricorde que nous puissions nous plaindre si les Martiens ont mené contre nous une guerre semblable?”

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?
en
La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898

Herbert George Wells: Citations en anglais

“How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.”

H. G. Wells The Star

"The Star", final line, first published in The Graphic, Christmas issue (1897)

“Our true nationality is mankind.”

H. G. Wells livre The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 41

“For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.”

H. G. Wells livre A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 10, sect. 1

“Rowena: You’ve got the subtlety of a bullfrog.”

H. G. Wells livre The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“Suppose, now, there is such a thing as an all-round inferior race. Is that any reason why we should propose to preserve it for ever…? Whether there is a race so inferior I do not know, but certainly there is no race so superior as to be trusted with human charges. The true answer to Aristotle’s plea for slavery, that there are “natural slaves,” lies in the fact that there are no “natural” masters… The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. There is only one sane and logical thing to be done with a really inferior race, and that is to exterminate it. Now there are various ways of exterminating a race, and most of them are cruel. You may end it with fire and sword after the old Hebrew fashion; you may enslave it and work it to death, as the Spaniards did the Caribs; you may set it boundaries and then poison it slowly with deleterious commodities, as the Americans do with most of their Indians; you may incite it to wear clothing to which it is not accustomed and to live under new and strange conditions that will expose it to infectious diseases to which you yourselves are immune, as the missionaries do the Polynesians; you may resort to honest simple murder, as we English did with the Tasmanians; or you can maintain such conditions as conduce to “race suicide,” as the British administration does in Fiji. Suppose, then, for a moment, that there is an all-round inferior race… If any of the race did, after all, prove to be fit to survive, they would survive—they would be picked out with a sure and automatic justice from the over-ready condemnation of all their kind. Is there, however, an all-round inferior race in the world? Even the Australian black-fellow is, perhaps, not quite so entirely eligible for extinction as a good, wholesome, horse-racing, sheep-farming Australian white may think. These queer little races, the black-fellows, the Pigmies, the Bushmen, may have their little gifts, a greater keenness, a greater fineness of this sense or that, a quaintness of the imagination or what not, that may serve as their little unique addition to the totality of our Utopian civilisation. We are supposing that every individual alive on earth is alive in Utopia, and so all the surviving “black-fellows” are there. Every one of them in Utopia has had what none have had on earth, a fair education and fair treatment, justice, and opportunity…Some may be even prosperous and admired, may have married women of their own or some other race, and so may be transmitting that distinctive thin thread of excellence, to take its due place in the great synthesis of the future.”

H. G. Wells livre A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 10, sect. 3

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)

“He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.”

H. G. Wells livre The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.”

The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19

Auteurs similaires

George Orwell photo
George Orwell 27
écrivain britannique
Terry Pratchett photo
Terry Pratchett 82
écrivain britannique
Elias Canetti photo
Elias Canetti 8
écrivain britannique germanophone
Arthur Conan Doyle photo
Arthur Conan Doyle 15
écrivain et médecin écossais
Aldous Huxley photo
Aldous Huxley 43
Romancier et essayiste britannique
Vladimir Nabokov photo
Vladimir Nabokov 39
écrivain
Richard Dawkins photo
Richard Dawkins 8
biologiste et éthologiste britannique
Richard Bach photo
Richard Bach 8
écrivain américain
John Maynard Keynes photo
John Maynard Keynes 12
économiste britannique
Cesare Pavese photo
Cesare Pavese 6
écrivain italien