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Herbert George Wells słynne cytaty

„Mam tę nadzieję, bez niej bowiem nie umiałbym żyć.”

Herbert George Wells

„Siła może być tylko dziedzictwem potrzeby; bezpieczeństwo daje w nagrodę niemoc.”

Herbert George Wells książka Wehikuł czasu

Wehikuł czasu

„Z chwilą, gdy mężczyzna wie dokładnie, czego chce, wyczerpał już jeden z głównych powabów życia.”

Herbert George Wells

„Zbyt łatwe osiągnięcia nie wzbudzają ufności.”

Herbert George Wells książka Wehikuł czasu

Wehikuł czasu

„Reklama to prawnie dozwolone kłamstwo.”

Herbert George Wells

Advertising is legalized lying. (ang.)

„Nie można zmienić przeznaczenia.”

Herbert George Wells książka Wehikuł czasu

Wehikuł czasu

Herbert George Wells cytaty

„Jadło określa świadomość.”

Herbert George Wells

„Lepienie z ludzkości jednej społeczności nie oznacza stworzenia społeczności jednolitej, wręcz przeciwnie; przyjazne i odpowiednie wykorzystanie poszczególnych cech w atmosferze zrozumienia… Społeczności oparte na jednym szablonie, jak pudełka żołnierzyków, są raczej tworem przeszłości niż przyszłości.”

Herbert George Wells

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding… Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. (ang.)
Źródło: Historia świata (1920)

O historii , O zrozumieniu , O przeszłości , O przyszłości

„Jeśli nie skończymy z wojną, wojna skończy z nami.”

Herbert George Wells

O wojnie

„U ujścia Wisły stał na wskroś niemiecki gród Danzig. Żył on głównie z polskiego handlu i nie było powodu, by przypuszczać, że w jakikolwiek sposób utrudniłby wwóz towarów do Polski i ich wywóz z niej. Był starodawnym, uczciwym, czystym i zamożnym miastem niemieckim. 96 procent jego mieszkańców stanowili Niemcy. (…) Oddzieli go jednak od Niemiec i uczynili „Wolnym Miastem”, a na zachód od niego zapewnili przyrzeczony przez Wilsona „dostęp do morza”, przyłączając do Polski szeroki pas Pomorza.”

Herbert George Wells

At the mouth of the Vistula stood the entirely German city of Danzig. It lived mainly as an outlet for Polish trade, and it could prosper in no other way. There was no reason to suppose it would put any difficulties in the way of Polish imports and exports. It was an ancient, honest, clean and prosperous German city. Ninety-six per cent of its inhabitants were German. (…) But they separated it from Germany and made it into a "free city", and to the west of it they achieved that "access to the sea" of Wilson’s, by annexing a broad band of Pomeranian territory to Poland. (ang.)
Źródło: The Shape of Things to Come, 1933 http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45th/book1.html#chapter10

„W naszym świecie ludzie bogacą się raczej ujmując innym niż służąc.”

Herbert George Wells

Źródło: Wielka księga mądrości, wybór Jacek i Tomasz Ilga

O ludziach

„Trudy i wolność: oto warunki, pośród których człowiek czynny, silny i rozważny ostaje się, a słabszy ginie, i które wynagradzają współdziałanie ludzi zdolnych, wynagradzają opanowanie, stanowczość i cierpliwość.”

Herbert George Wells książka Wehikuł czasu

Wehikuł czasu

O ludziach , O wolności , O cierpliwości

„Cywilizacja to wyścig między oświatą a zagładą.”

Herbert George Wells

„Czas jest tylko szczególną formą przestrzeni.”

Herbert George Wells

O czasie

„Pogarda jest źródłem wszelkich niesprawiedliwości.”

Herbert George Wells

„Pisanie mnóstwa książek i artykułów nie jest dowodem mądrości czy energii, lecz tylko przyzwyczajeniem do siedzącego trybu życia.”

Herbert George Wells

O książkach

„Nie ma gorszych ślepców nad tych, którzy nie chcą widzieć.”

Herbert George Wells

Źródło: Danuta Gorajewska, Fakty i mity o osobach z niepełnosprawnością, Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Integracji, Warszawa 2006.

„Licho zrodzone ze ślepego strachu i gniewu z trudnością daje się okiełznać.”

Herbert George Wells książka Wehikuł czasu

Wehikuł czasu

O strachu

„Niemcy do głębi odczuwają poniżenie Gdańska. Ten Korytarz irytuje je, jak nic innego w układzie pokojowym. (…)
Już kilkanaście lat po podpisaniu traktatu wersalskiego Korytarz polski stanowił bez wątpienia najniebezpieczniejszy składnik sytuacji europejskiej. Burzył on wszelkie nadzieje na rozbrojenie i popychał zahipnotyzowanych, bezsilnych mężów stanu w kierunku kolejnej wojny.”

Herbert George Wells

The indignity and menace of Danzig burnt into the German imagination. That Corridor fretted it as nothing else in the peace settlement had fretted it. (…)
Within a dozen years of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles the Polish Corridor was plainly the most dangerous factor in the European situation. It mocked every projection of disarmament. It pointed the hypnotized and impotent statescraft of Europe straight towards a resumption of war. (ang.)
fragment opubl. w 1933 dzieła Kształt rzeczy przyszłych w którym autor po raz pierwszy używa w stosunku do polskiego Pomorza sformułowania „Korytarz polski” szeroko później wykorzystywanego przez Josepha Goebbelsa.
Źródło: The Shape of Things to Come, 1933 http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45th/book1.html#chapter10

O wojnie

Herbert George Wells: Cytaty po angielsku

“Over me, around me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal; that which was before the beginning, and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence—the infinite and final Night of space.”

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H. G. Wells książka The First Men in the Moon

Źródło: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 19: Mr. Bedford Alone

“Mr. Duff Cooper, landing at New York, cools his mind by blowing off about a forthcoming revolt of the German Army and a return to monarchy in Germany, a Holy Roman Empire, I suppose, leading that new Crusade of which the Pope has been talking about recent against anti-God Russia. But quite a lot of radical people in the world, in spite of the folly, stupidity and brutality of the Stalin–Molotov attack on Finland, are averse from this idea of a religious war against Socialism and Atheism.”

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H. G. Wells

The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)

“The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.”

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H. G. Wells książka The Invisible Man

Źródło: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 6: The Furniture that Went Mad

“Marguerite, joyfully: “We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. Well never be anyone else.””

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H. G. Wells

The New Faust https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=%22We+are+ourselves%2C+we+are+ourselves%2C+and+we%27ll+never+be+anyone+else.%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=Marguerite%2C+joyfully:+%E2%80%9CWe+are+ourselves%2C+my+dear%2C+we+are+ourselves.+We%27 (in Nash's Pall Magazine, December 1936 – adaptation of "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham")

“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”

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H. G. Wells książka Boon

Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)

“Pippa' Passworthy: This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”

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

Things to Come (1936)

“If his thinking has been sound, then this world is at the end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded.”

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The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 1

“In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”

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H. G. Wells książka The War of the Worlds

Book II, Ch. 8 (Ch. 25 in editions without Book divisions): Dead London
The War of the Worlds (1898)

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

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H. G. Wells książka The Discovery of the Future

The Discovery of the Future (1901)

“These are the rights of all human beings. They are yours wherever you are. Demand that your rulers and politicians sign and observe this declaration. If they refuse, if they quibble, they can have no place in the new free world that dawns upon mankind.”

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The Rights of the World Citizen (1942); a revised edition of The Rights of Man

“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”

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H. G. Wells książka A Modern Utopia

Źródło: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 2, sect. 6

“Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the length of their bodies; and yet — so relative is our idea of grace — my eye became habituated to their forms, and at last I even fell in with their persuasion that my own long thighs were ungainly.”

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H. G. Wells książka The Island of Doctor Moreau

Źródło: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 15: Concerning the Beast Folk

“…there has accumulated a vast tangle of emergency legislation, regulations, barriers and restraints, out of all proportion to and often missing and distorting the needs of the situation. For the restoration and modernisation of human civilization, this exaggerated outlawing of the fellow citizen whom we see fit to suspect as a traitor or revolutionary and also of the stranger within our gates, has to be restrained and brought back within the scheme of human rights.”

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H. G. Wells

The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)

“I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose.”

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H. G. Wells

What is Coming? (1916)

“You have been amazingly energetic and clever," this letter ran, "though what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night's rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under me—the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch—the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To begin with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example—a man named Kemp. Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away, hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armour if he likes—Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let him take precautions; it will impress my people. Death starts from the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as the postman comes along, then off! The game begins. Death starts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon you also. Today Kemp is to die.”

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H. G. Wells książka The Invisible Man

Źródło: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 27: The Seige of Kemp's House

“Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness…Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile…Not a single one but has at some time wept.”

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H. G. Wells książka The Outline of History

Źródło: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40

“Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.”

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

Things to Come (1936)

“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”

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H. G. Wells książka A Modern Utopia

Źródło: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 8

“The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding… Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.”

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H. G. Wells książka The Outline of History

The Outline of History (1920)

“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

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H. G. Wells

Attributed to Wells's book New Worlds for Old (1908) by Ferdinand Lundberg in Scoundrels All (1968), p. 126. The quote is widely repeated on the internet, but does not appear in the cited work.
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“Our minds fall very readily under the spell of such unmitigated words as Purity and Chastity. Only death beyond decay, absolute non-existence, can be Pure and Chaste. Life is impurity, fact is impure. Everything has traces of alien matter; our very health is dependent on parasitic bacteria; the purest blood in the world has a tainted ancestor, and not a saint but has evil thoughts…. This stupidity, this unreasonable idealism of the common mind, fills life to-day with cruelties and exclusions, with partial suicides and secret shames. But we are born impure, we die impure; it is a fable that spotless white lilies sprang from any saint's decay, and the chastity of a monk or nun is but introverted impurity. We have to take life valiantly on these conditions and make such honour and beauty and sympathy out of our confusions, gather such constructive experience, as we may…. Life is that, and abstinence is for the most part a mere evasion of life.”

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H. G. Wells

Źródło: First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4225 (1908), Ch.3, section 20, Of Abstinences and Disciplines

“When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”

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H. G. Wells

1935 speech at Barber's Hall, London, included in Round the World for Birth Control (1937) edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre