H. G. Wells Quotes About Energy
-
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.
→ -
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
→ -
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.
→ -
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.
→
Related Authors
-
Isaac Asimov Author -
Orson Welles Actor -
George Bernard Shaw Playwright -
Jules Verne Novelist -
Mark Twain Author -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Novelist -
Alexandre Dumas Writer -
Arthur Conan Doyle Physician -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Robert Louis Stevenson Novelist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
George Orwell Novelist -
Philip K. Dick Novelist -
Stanislaw Lem Writer -
Arthur C. Clarke Film writer -
Edgar Rice Burroughs Writer -
Oscar Wilde Writer -
Jack London Author -
Aldous Huxley Writer -
Ray Bradbury Writer