Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Quote by H G Wells

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

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

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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

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

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

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with...

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with...

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a...

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a...

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us...

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...