Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
H. G. WellsIf your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
H. G. WellsThe ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.
H. G. WellsThe third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
H. G. Wells