Герберт Джордж Уэллс цитаты (174 цитат, страница 3)

Среди них есть и такие тупицы, которые способны отменить преподавание химии, если только не заверить их, что это «пролетарская» химия, или наложить запрет на любой орнамент, как реакционный, если в нём не фигурирует сочетание букв РСФСР...
And in the face of gigantic difficulties they are trying to rebuild a new Russia among the ruins. We may quarrel with their principles and methods, we may call their schemes Utopian and so forth, we may sneer at or we may dread what they are doing, but it is no good pretending that there is no creative effort in Russia at the present time. A certain section of the Bolsheviks are hard-minded, doctrinaire and unteachable men, fanatics who believe that the mere destruction of capitalism, the disuse of money and trading, the effacement of all social differences, will in itself bring about a sort of bleak millennium. There are Bolsheviki so stupid that they would stop the teaching of chemistry in schools until they were assured it was "proletarian" chemistry, and who would suppress every decorative design that was not an elaboration of the letters R.S.F.S.R. ...
4. Созидательная работа в России.
перевод с уточнениями
Россия в тенях (1920)
Источник: Герберт Уэллс. Россия во мгле http://lib.ru/INOFANT/UELS/russia.txt. Собрание сочинений в 15-ти томах. Т. 15 / пер. И. Виккер, В. Пастоев. — М.: Правда, 1964.
Источник: Russia in the Shadows by H. G. Wells http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602371h.html

Герберт Джордж Уэллс цитаты

„Наша истинная национальность — это человечество.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

Our true nationality is mankind.
«Очерки истории цивилизации», глава 41

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Никто из нас не знает, что скрывается иногда за благообразной внешностью человека, сэр. Все мы – только одна видимость.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс книга Война миров

видимость
Источник: Война миров

О мужчинах , О внешности

„Реклама — узаконенная ложь.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

О лжи

„История человечества превращается в гонку между образованием и катастрофой.“

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Об образовании , Об истории

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„Пострадавший был не кто иной, как сэр Мохини, падишах — шикарный малый, ну прямо франт с Пиккадилли, сказали бы вы, оглядев его с ног до головы, вернее, с ног до плеч. Потому что выше торчала безобразная черная голова в этаком здоровенном тюрбане, а на тюрбане бриллиант. Чертова птица вдруг как клюнет камешек да и проглотила его, а когда этот тип поднял крик, смекнула, видно, что дело неладно, пошла и смешалась с другими страусами, чтобы сохранить свое инкогнито.“

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страус, птица, бриллиант
Источник: рассказы

О птицах

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„Это совсем новый вид муравьев. Мы должны стать — как это у вас называется? — энтомологами. Муравьи очень крупные. Пять сантиметров, а попадаются и побольше!
Просто смешно: нас послали ловить насекомых, словно мы обезьяны… Правда, они пожирают страну…“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

муравьи
Источник: рассказы

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„Говорят, вся жизнь - это сон, и к тому же скверный, жалкий, короткий сон, хотя ведь другой все равно не приснится.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс книга Машина времени

сон
Источник: Машина времени

О сне , О жизни

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Речь позволяет мысли фиксировать, запоминать, охватывать все более и более сложные понятия. Это словно бы рука мозга, которой он берет и изучает различные предметы и явления.“

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мысли
Источник: Очерки истории цивилизации

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Точно так же какая-нибудь солидная птица на острове Св. Маврикия, чувствуя себя полным хозяином своего гнезда, могла бы обсуждать прибытие безжалостных изголодавшихся моряков.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс книга Война миров

птица
Источник: Война миров

О птицах

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Ругаться так красноречиво и замысловато мог только образованный человек.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс книга Человек-невидимка

ругань
Источник: Человек-невидимка. Рассказы (сборник)

О мужчинах

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Удивительные вещи можно найти в книгах.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс книга Человек-невидимка

книга
Источник: Человек-невидимка

О книгах

„Нравственное негодование — это зависть с нимбом вокруг головы.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

О зависти

„Ни одна страсть в мире не может сравниться со страстным желанием править чужую рукопись.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

О мире , О страсти

„История человечества в основном — история идей.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

Об идеях , Об истории

„Всегда глупым не бывает никто, иногда — бывает каждый.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

„Тот, кто не смотрит вперед, оказывается позади.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

„Я сознаюсь, что подходил к Сталину с некоторым подозрением и предубеждением. В моём сознании был создан образ очень осторожного, сосредоточенного в себе фанатика, деспота, завистливого, подозрительного монополизатора власти. <…> Я ожидал встретить безжалостного, жестокого доктринёра и самодовольного грузина-горца, чей дух никогда полностью не вырывался из родных горных долин. Но я вынужден был признать, что под его руководством Россия была не только сверхтиранизирована и приведена в упадок, она была отрегулирована и возрождается. <…> Все смутные слухи, все подозрения для меня перестали существовать навсегда, после того, как я поговорил с ним несколько минут. <…> Однако ум Сталина был почти так же ограничен, ограничен в доктринах Ленина и Маркса, как и умы выдрессированных сотрудников британской разведки и дипломатии (о которых я уже отозвался весьма нелестно). Он был точно таким же негибким. <…> Иногда мне хотелось сдвинуть его с неприступных позиций, и иногда это, кажется, удавалось, но как только Сталин чувствовал под ногами зыбкую почву, он находил опору в какой-нибудь испытанной временем фразе и продолжал отстаивать свои ортодоксальные взгляды. <…> Я никогда не встречал человека более искреннего, порядочного и честного; в нём нет ничего тёмного и зловещего, и именно этими его качествами следует объяснить его огромную власть в России.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс книга Experiment in Autobiography

I confess that I approached Stalin with a certain amount of suspicion and prejudice. A picture had been built up in my mind of a very reserved and self-centred fanatic, a despot without vices, a jealous monopolizer of power. <…> I still expected to meet a ruthless, hard—possibly doctrinaire—and self-sufficient man at Moscow; a Georgian highlander whose spirit had never completely emerged from its native mountain glen. Yet I had had to recognize that under him Russia was not being merely tyrannized over and held down; it was being governed and it was getting on. <…> All such shadowy undertow, all suspicion of hidden emotional tensions, ceased for ever, after I had talked to him for a few minutes. <…> But Stalin was almost as much a trained mind, trained in the doctrines of Lenin and Marx, as those governess-trained minds of the British Foreign Office and diplomatic service, of which I have already written so unkindly. He was as little adaptable. <…> Sometimes I seemed to get him moving as I wanted him to move, but directly he felt he was having his feet shifted, he would clutch at some time-honoured phrase and struggle back to orthodoxy. <…> I have never met a man more candid, fair and honest, and to these qualities it is, and to nothing occult and sinister, that he owes his tremendous undisputed ascendency in Russia.
гл. 9, 9; перевод с англ. яз., Wells, H.G. (1934), Experiment in Autobiography, New-York, p. 685-690.
Опыт автобиографии (1934)
Источник: Experiment in Autobiography by H. G. Wells, 1934 http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/wellshg-autobiography/wellshg-autobiography-00-h-dir/wellshg-autobiography-00-h.html

О мужчинах , О власти , О сознании , разведка

„Воспоминания не мертвы, это живые существа, которые дремлют, пока их не трогают, но начинают расти и принимают порой самые неожиданные формы, если их постоянно тревожить.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс

«Препарат под микроскопом»

О воспоминаниях

Этот перевод ждет рассмотрения. Правильный ли перевод?

„Money and credit are as much human contrivances as bicycles, and as liable to expansion and modification as any other sort of prevalent but imperfect machine. And how will the new republic treat the inferior races? How will it deal with the black? how will it deal with the yellow man? how will it tackle that alleged termite in the civilized woodwork, the Jew? Certainly not as races at all. It will aim to establish, and it will at last, though probably only after a second century has passed, establish a world state with a common language and a common rule. All over the world its roads, its standards, its laws, and its apparatus of control will run. It will, I have said, make the multiplication of those who fall behind a certain standard of social efficiency unpleasant and difficult… The Jew will probably lose much of his particularism, intermarry with Gentiles, and cease to be a physically distinct element in human affairs in a century or so. But much of his moral tradition will, I hope, never die. … And for the rest, those swarms of black, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people, who do not come into the new needs of efficiency? Well, the world is a world, not a charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go. The whole tenor and meaning of the world, as I see it, is that they have to go. So far as they fail to develop sane, vigorous, and distinctive personalities for the great world of the future, it is their portion to die out and disappear. The world has a greater purpose than happiness; our lives are to serve God's purpose, and that purpose aims not at man as an end, but works through him to greater issues.

Источник: https://ru.citaty.net/community/translations/237159/“

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Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Всё это вызывало во мне чувство, близкое к обмороку. Было что-то грибообразное в этой маслянистой коричневой коже, а в неуклюжей обдуманности медленных движений марсиан лежало что-то невыразимо страшное.“

Герберт Джордж Уэллс книга Война миров

марсиане
Источник: Война миров

О чувствах

Герберт Джордж Уэллс: Цитаты на английском языке

“Over me, around me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal; that which was before the beginning, and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence—the infinite and final Night of space.”

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H. G. Wells книга The First Men in the Moon

Источник: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 19: Mr. Bedford Alone

“Mr. Duff Cooper, landing at New York, cools his mind by blowing off about a forthcoming revolt of the German Army and a return to monarchy in Germany, a Holy Roman Empire, I suppose, leading that new Crusade of which the Pope has been talking about recent against anti-God Russia. But quite a lot of radical people in the world, in spite of the folly, stupidity and brutality of the Stalin–Molotov attack on Finland, are averse from this idea of a religious war against Socialism and Atheism.”

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H. G. Wells

The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)

“The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.”

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H. G. Wells книга Человек-невидимка

Источник: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 6: The Furniture that Went Mad

“Marguerite, joyfully: “We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. Well never be anyone else.””

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H. G. Wells

The New Faust https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=%22We+are+ourselves%2C+we+are+ourselves%2C+and+we%27ll+never+be+anyone+else.%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=Marguerite%2C+joyfully:+%E2%80%9CWe+are+ourselves%2C+my+dear%2C+we+are+ourselves.+We%27 (in Nash's Pall Magazine, December 1936 – adaptation of "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham")

“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”

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H. G. Wells книга Boon

Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)

“Pippa' Passworthy: This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”

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H. G. Wells книга The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“If his thinking has been sound, then this world is at the end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded.”

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H. G. Wells

The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 1

“In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”

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H. G. Wells книга Война миров

Book II, Ch. 8 (Ch. 25 in editions without Book divisions): Dead London
The War of the Worlds (1898)

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

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H. G. Wells книга The Discovery of the Future

The Discovery of the Future (1901)

“These are the rights of all human beings. They are yours wherever you are. Demand that your rulers and politicians sign and observe this declaration. If they refuse, if they quibble, they can have no place in the new free world that dawns upon mankind.”

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The Rights of the World Citizen (1942); a revised edition of The Rights of Man

“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”

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H. G. Wells книга A Modern Utopia

Источник: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 2, sect. 6

“Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the length of their bodies; and yet — so relative is our idea of grace — my eye became habituated to their forms, and at last I even fell in with their persuasion that my own long thighs were ungainly.”

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H. G. Wells книга The Island of Doctor Moreau

Источник: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 15: Concerning the Beast Folk

“…there has accumulated a vast tangle of emergency legislation, regulations, barriers and restraints, out of all proportion to and often missing and distorting the needs of the situation. For the restoration and modernisation of human civilization, this exaggerated outlawing of the fellow citizen whom we see fit to suspect as a traitor or revolutionary and also of the stranger within our gates, has to be restrained and brought back within the scheme of human rights.”

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H. G. Wells

The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)

“I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose.”

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H. G. Wells

What is Coming? (1916)

“You have been amazingly energetic and clever," this letter ran, "though what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night's rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under me—the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch—the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To begin with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example—a man named Kemp. Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away, hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armour if he likes—Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let him take precautions; it will impress my people. Death starts from the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as the postman comes along, then off! The game begins. Death starts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon you also. Today Kemp is to die.”

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H. G. Wells книга Человек-невидимка

Источник: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 27: The Seige of Kemp's House

“Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness…Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile…Not a single one but has at some time wept.”

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H. G. Wells книга The Outline of History

Источник: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40

“Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.”

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H. G. Wells книга The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”

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H. G. Wells книга A Modern Utopia

Источник: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 8

“The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding… Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.”

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H. G. Wells книга The Outline of History

The Outline of History (1920)

“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

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H. G. Wells

Attributed to Wells's book New Worlds for Old (1908) by Ferdinand Lundberg in Scoundrels All (1968), p. 126. The quote is widely repeated on the internet, but does not appear in the cited work.
Misattributed

“Our minds fall very readily under the spell of such unmitigated words as Purity and Chastity. Only death beyond decay, absolute non-existence, can be Pure and Chaste. Life is impurity, fact is impure. Everything has traces of alien matter; our very health is dependent on parasitic bacteria; the purest blood in the world has a tainted ancestor, and not a saint but has evil thoughts…. This stupidity, this unreasonable idealism of the common mind, fills life to-day with cruelties and exclusions, with partial suicides and secret shames. But we are born impure, we die impure; it is a fable that spotless white lilies sprang from any saint's decay, and the chastity of a monk or nun is but introverted impurity. We have to take life valiantly on these conditions and make such honour and beauty and sympathy out of our confusions, gather such constructive experience, as we may…. Life is that, and abstinence is for the most part a mere evasion of life.”

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H. G. Wells

Источник: First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4225 (1908), Ch.3, section 20, Of Abstinences and Disciplines

“When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”

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H. G. Wells

1935 speech at Barber's Hall, London, included in Round the World for Birth Control (1937) edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre