Quote by Havelock Ellis
What we call

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

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Havelock Ellis

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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. – Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

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Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. – Llewelyn Powys

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Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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