H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells—known as H. G. Wells—was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. He was...
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Date of Birth21 September 1866
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.
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.
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.
If the world does not please you, you can change it.
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.
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
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.
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…
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
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?"
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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.
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.