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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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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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Dance, Dancing
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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. – Havelock Ellis

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Faith
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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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War
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Civilization
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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Civilization

Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin

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Civilization

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Civilization

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Civilization

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