# Quote — H.G. Wells, World Brain

> There has been ... an enormous waste of human mental and physical resources in premature revolutionary thrusts, ill-planned, dogmatic, essentially unscientific reconstructions and restorations of the social order, during the past hundred years. This was the inevitable first result of the discrediting of those old and superseded mental adaptations which were embodied in the institutions and education of the past. They discredited themselves and left the world full of problems.

- Author: [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md)
- Book: [World Brain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/world-brain.md)
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> We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. To work out a way to that world brain organization is therefore our primary need in this age of imperative construction.

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