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At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
The War of the Worlds (1898)
Change played in its new fashion with the world for twenty years. To most men the new things came little by little and day by day, remarkably enough, but not so abruptly as to overwhelm.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
He was inordinately proud of England, and he abused her incessantly.
Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.
The Open Conspiracy (1928)
We want a common law for Africa, a general Declaration of Rights, of certain elementary rights, and we want a common authority to which the black man and the native tribe may appeal for justice.
In The Fourth Year (1918)
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
The Invisible Man (1897)
I am more to the Left than you, Mr. Stalin.
The effects of the ideas of Roosevelt's ‘new deal’ is most powerful, and in my opinion they are socialist ideas
Our true nationality is mankind.
The Outline of History (1920)
Cynicism is humour in ill health.
That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.
The War in the Air (1908)
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them—that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
If it is proper to ’reconstitute’ a Jewish State which has not existed for two thousand years, why not go back another thousand years end reconstitute the Canaanite state? The Canaanites, unlike the Jews, are still there.
There has been ... an enormous waste of human mental and physical resources in premature revolutionary thrusts, ill-planned, dogmatic, essentially unscientific reconstructions and restorations of the social order, during the past hundred years.
World Brain (1938)
A considerable number of people opposed it because it did not assert or impose on all mankind, some particular fad. Vegetarians, for example, wanted clauses to establish the legal rights of animals (pigs, etc).
The authorities in Soviet Russia seem as timorous about subversive propaganda as Conservative old ladies in England. Russia is still a fastness of orthodoxy, even if the guardianship of orthodoxy has changed hands.
Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.
The First Men in the Moon (1901)
Countless people, from maharajas to millionaires and from pukkha sahibs to pretty ladies, will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by the frustration of their passions and ambitions through its advent and will die protesting against it.
The New World Order (1940)