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When the Sleeper Wakes QUOTES

When the Sleeper Wakes QUOTES

1 " You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

2 " Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

3 " There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

4 " ...fact takes no heed of human hopes. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

5 " After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

6 " What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind - what is it? That some day the Over-man may come, that some day the inferior, the weak and the bestial may be subdued or eliminated. Subdued if not eliminated. The world is no place for the bad, the stupid, the enervated. Their duty - it's a fine duty too! - is to due. The death of the failure! That is the path by which the beast rose to manhood, by which man goes on to higher things. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

7 " Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

8 " The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. 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.... "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

9 " And through it all, this destiny was before me," he said; "this vast inheritance of which I did not dream. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

10 " 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. . . . "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

11 " There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

12 " I wonder," said Graham.
Ostrog stared.
Must the world go this way?" said Graham, with his emotions at the speaking point. "Must it indeed
go in this way? Have all our hopes been vain?"
What do you mean?" said Ostrog. "Hopes?"
I came from a democratic age. And I find an aristocratic tyranny!"
Well, — but you are the chief tyrant."
Graham shook his head. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

13 " And this spreading usurpation of the world was so dexterously performed—a proteus—hundreds of banks, companies, syndicates, masked the Council's operations—that it was already far advanced before common men suspected the tyranny that had come. The "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

14 " As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

15 " For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and equal manhood had become a very real thing to him. He had hoped, as indeed his age had hoped, rashly taking it for granted, that the sacrifice of the many to the few would some day cease, that a day was near when every child born of woman should have a fair and assured chance of happiness. And here, after two hundred years, the same hope, still unfulfilled, cried passionately through the city. After two hundred years, he knew, greater than ever, grown with the city to gigantic proportions, were poverty and helpless labour and all the sorrows of his time. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

16 " So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

17 " His was a darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation, a dreamless inanition, a vast space of peace. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

18 " He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world. "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

19 " What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity—the self! "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes

20 " What was this place?—this place that to his senses seemed subtly quivering like a thing alive? "

― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes