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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
— Havelock Ellis
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
— Havelock Ellis
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
— Havelock Ellis
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
— Havelock Ellis
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?
— Havelock Ellis
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
— Havelock Ellis
The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
— Havelock Ellis
Every society has the criminals that it deserves.
— Havelock Ellis
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
— Havelock Ellis
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
— Havelock Ellis
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
— Havelock Ellis
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
— Havelock Ellis
To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.
— Havelock Ellis
Beauty is the child of love.
— Havelock Ellis
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
— Havelock Ellis
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
— Havelock Ellis
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
— Havelock Ellis
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
— Havelock Ellis
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— Steven Havelock
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
— Havelock Ellis
All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
— Havelock Ellis
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
— Havelock Ellis
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
— Havelock Ellis
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
— Havelock Ellis
The mother is the child's supreme parent.
— Havelock Ellis
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
— Havelock Ellis
There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
— Havelock Ellis
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
— Havelock Ellis
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
— Lara Chapman
Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
— Havelock Ellis
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
— Havelock Ellis
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
— Havelock Ellis
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— James S.A. Corey
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
— Havelock Ellis
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
— Havelock Ellis
Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
— Havelock Ellis
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
— Havelock Ellis
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
— H. Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
— Havelock Ellis
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
— Havelock Ellis
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
— Havelock Ellis
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
— Havelock Ellis
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
— Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
— Havelock Ellis
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.
— Havelock Ellis
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
— Havelock Ellis
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
— Havelock Ellis
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.
— Havelock Ellis
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
— Havelock Ellis
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
— Havelock Ellis
Man lives by imagination.
— Havelock Ellis
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— James S.A. Corey
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
— Havelock Ellis
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
— Havelock Ellis
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
— Havelock Ellis
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
— Havelock Ellis