We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.