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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis
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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
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Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
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