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Quotes from H. G. Wells

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
~ H. G. Wells
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
~ H. G. Wells
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
~ H. G. Wells
We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.
~ H. G. Wells
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
~ H. G. Wells
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
~ H. G. Wells
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H. G. Wells
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
~ H. G. Wells
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
~ H. G. Wells
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
~ H. G. Wells
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~ H. G. Wells