This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
H. G. WellsHuman 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. WellsEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WellsCountless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.
H. G. Wells