The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.
H. G. WellsPatriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
H. G. WellsIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WellsYou Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.
H. G. Wells