H. G. Wells Quotes About Earth
-
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
→ -
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.
→ -
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
→ -
Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
→ -
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'
→ -
What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?
→ -
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?
→
Related Authors
-
Isaac Asimov Author -
Orson Welles Actor -
George Bernard Shaw Playwright -
Jules Verne Novelist -
Mark Twain Author -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Novelist -
Alexandre Dumas Writer -
Arthur Conan Doyle Physician -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Robert Louis Stevenson Novelist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
George Orwell Novelist -
Philip K. Dick Novelist -
Stanislaw Lem Writer -
Arthur C. Clarke Film writer -
Edgar Rice Burroughs Writer -
Oscar Wilde Writer -
Jack London Author -
Aldous Huxley Writer -
Ray Bradbury Writer