H. G. Wells

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully 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."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Advertising is legalized lying."

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."

"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."