"Can we doubt that presently our race will more than realize our boldest imaginations, that it will achieve unity and peace, and then our children will live in a world made more splendid and lovely… Going on from strength to strength in an ever-widening circle of achievement?” (HG Wells in 1937)

“The cold-blooded massacres of the defenseless, the return of deliberate and organized torture, mental torment, and fear to a world from which such things had seemed well nigh banished has come near to breaking my spirit.” (HG Wells in 1946)