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
The Informative Content of Education http://books.google.com/books?&id=vLs4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+believe+that+the+crazy+combative+patriotism+that+plainly+threatens+to+destroy+civilisation+to-day+is+very+largely+begotten+by+the+schoolmaster+and+the+schoolmistress+in+their+history+lessons+They+take+the+growing+mind+at+a+naturally+barbaric+phase+and+they+inflame+and+fix+its+barbarism%22&pg=PA242#v=onepage Speech http://archive.org/stream/reportofbritisha37adva#page/242/mode/2up given at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Nottingham, England on 2 September 1937
Source: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 13: Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions
Source: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 10: Mr. Marvel's Visit To Iping
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains
“Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.”
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)
“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”
Source: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk
“I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.”
An Experiment in Autobiography http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/wellshg-autobiography/wellshg-autobiography-00-h-dir/wellshg-autobiography-00-h.html (1934)
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, Ch. 11 (1931)
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains
“For adaptations based on the novel see The War of the Worlds (disambiguation).”
The War of the Worlds (1898)
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 17: A Catastrophe
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 16: How the Beast Folk Tasted Blood
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 22: The Man Alone
“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 15
“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 19