Quote by Havelock Ellis
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. – Havelock Ellis

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Charm – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm. – Havelock Ellis

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. – Lord Raglan

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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman

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