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

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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. – Havelock Ellis

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. – Havelock Ellis

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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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Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Spirochete because of its association with

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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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It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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

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Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan

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