Stephen

“This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Is it more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?”
― China Miéville, The City & The City

“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and offspring are secure, there is less necessity—indeed there is no necessity—for an efficient family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children’s needs disappears.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine