H. G. Wells World Quotations

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

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State…

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives.

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.