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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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

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To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. – Havelock Ellis

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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. – Havelock Ellis

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Without winners, there wouldnt even be any civilization. – Woody Hayes

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. – C.P. Snow

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

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