Quotes
Quotes - Wells
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
Go away... I'm alright.
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
'Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".
A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
We can only change the world by changing men.
