Recent Quotes by Herbert George Wells

History has been kinder to Churchill than many of his contemporaries ever were. Some may be surprised to learn that the following luminary from the field of science-fiction had anything political to say at all: Winston Churchill the present would-be British Fuehrer is a person with a range of ideas limited to the adventures and opportunities of British political life. He has never given evidence of thinking extensively or of any scientific or literary capacity.... His ideology picked up in the garrison life of India on the reefs of South Africa the maternal home and the conversation of wealthy Conservative households is a pitiful jumble of incoherent nonsense. A boy scout is better equipped. He has served his purpose and it is high time he retired upon his laurels before we forget the debt we owe him....

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.