The stranger swore briefly but vividly.
It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. It's...
The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them....
There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.
What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.
We're eatable ants.
There is no way out or round or through.
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the pub...
It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.
I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round hi...
I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educ...
I hope, or I could not live.
For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confron...
For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.
We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.
We have nothing to destroy, said Rud. All these things are done for already. They are falling in all over the world. They are dead. No need for destructive activities. But if we have nothing to destro...
To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth. On your behalf. . . .
This sense of insecurity was falling about the entire planet and though people went on doing the things they usually did, they had none of the assurance, the happy-go-lucky all-right feeling, that had...
They ought not to have let things come to this, he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why They were nor what This was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hated these...
The queer thing is that we do trust you, said Bodisham. In spite of your -- extremism.You'd better, said Rud with grim conviction. I'm right. What is extremism? The whole truth and nothing but the tru...