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Herbert George Wells – brytyjski pisarz i biolog. Po napisaniu powieści takich jak Wojna światów, Wehikuł czasu i Wyspa doktora Moreau stał się jednym z pionierów gatunku science fiction. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Wrzesień 1866 – 13. Sierpień 1946   •   Natępne imiona H.G. Wells, Герберт Уэллс
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Herbert George Wells słynne cytaty

„Zbyt łatwe osiągnięcia nie wzbudzają ufności.”

Wehikuł czasu

„Reklama to prawnie dozwolone kłamstwo.”

Advertising is legalized lying. (ang.)

„Nie można zmienić przeznaczenia.”

Wehikuł czasu

Herbert George Wells cytaty

„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.”

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)

„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.”

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.”

Źródło: Wielka księga mądrości, wybór Jacek i Tomasz Ilga

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

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

„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.”

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

Herbert George Wells: Cytaty po angielsku

“The Boss: You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.”

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

Things to Come (1936)

“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 książka The Outline of History

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

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

H. G. Wells książka A Modern Utopia

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

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

H. G. Wells książka 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 książka A Modern Utopia

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

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

The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)

“The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.”

H. G. Wells książka Bealby

Bealby: A Holiday (1915)

“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 książka The Island of Doctor Moreau

Źródło: 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

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