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H. G. Wells on Veterans Day

1866–1946 England

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The atomic bomb had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance.

The World Set Free (1913)

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

John Cabal: If we don't end war, war will end us.

Things to Come (1936)

Pippa' Passworthy: This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

Things to Come (1936)

And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?

The War of the Worlds (1898)

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