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What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command. – Havelock Ellis

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We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. – Havelock Ellis

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War
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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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Pain
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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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Morality
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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Morality

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe

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Morality

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Morality

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. – Denis Diderot

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Morality

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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. – Freda Adler

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Superstition

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. – Honore de Balzac

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Pleasure

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu

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Art

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. – Jean Kerr

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good