Quote by Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not bett

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis

Other quotes by 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

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Society
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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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Dancing
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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

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Technology
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Other Quotes from
War
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. – Maya Lin

Category:
War

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine

Category:
War

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? – Douglas Jerrold

Category:
War

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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War

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I would love to have a robot at home. – Hugh Jackman

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