The Open Conspiracy Quotes

“In Russia, where — in and about the urban centres, at least — Marxism has been put to the test, the doctrine of the Workers' Republic remains as a unifying cant, a test of orthodoxy of as little practical significance there as the communism of Jesus and communion with Christ in Christendom, while beneath this creed a small oligarchy which has attained power by its profession does its obstinate best, much hampered by the suspicion and hostility of the Western financiers and politicians, to carry on a series of interesting and varyingly successful experiments in the socialization of economic life.”
― H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

“The organized world community conducting and ensuring its own progress, requires a deliberate collective control of population as a primary condition.”
― H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

“To give oneself religiously is a continuing operation expressed in a series of acts. It can be nothing else. You cannot dedicate yourself and then go away to live just as you have lived before. It is a poor travesty of religion that does not produce an essential change in the life which embraces it.”
― H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

“The explanation of why things are is an unnecessary effort in religion. The essential fact in religion is the desire for religion and not how it came about. If you do not want religion, no persuasions, no convictions about your place in the universe can give it to you. The first sentence in the modern creed must be, not "I believe," but "I give myself.”
― H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

“The character of the Open Conspiracy will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as wide-spread and evident as socialism or communism. It will have taken the place of these movements very largely. It will be more than they were, it will be frankly a world religion. This large, loose assimilatory mass of movements, groups, and societies will be definitely and obviously attempting to swallow up the entire population of the world and become the new human community.”
― H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

“These changes have not come upon our world from without. No meteorite from outer space has struck our planet; there have been no overwhelming outbreaks of volcanic violence or strange epidemic diseases; the sun has not flared up to excessive heat or suddenly shrunken to plunge us into Arctic winter. The changes have come through men themselves.”
― H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: What Are We to Do with Our Lives?

“It is impossible for any clear-headed person to suppose that the ever more destructive stupidities of war can be eliminated from human affairs until some common political control dominates the earth, and unless certain pressures due to the growth of population, due to the enlarging scope of economic operations or due to conflicting standards and traditions of life, are disposed of.”
― H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?