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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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