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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H. G. Wells
Time, Peace, War
H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

H. G. Wells
Time, Moving, Space
H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

H. G. Wells
Time, Stars, Men
"Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", www.imdb.com. 1936.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

H. G. Wells
Time, Hands, Long
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

H. G. Wells
Time, Velocity, Uniforms
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

H. G. Wells
Funny, Time, Morning
"My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, 1964.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. Wells
Funny, New Year, Time
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.15, Penguin UK

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H. G. Wells
Time, Years, Rely Upon
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

H. G. Wells
Time, Men, Eight
H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.6, Sparklesoup LLC

If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

H. G. Wells
Time, Mean, Men
"The Time Machine". Book by H. G. Wells, 1895.

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