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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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. – Havelock Ellis

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Women
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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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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. – Havelock Ellis

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Education
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Morality
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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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Morality

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Morality

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

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Morality

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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Morality

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I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold. – George Linnaeus Banks

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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says “I was beaten,” he does not say “My men were beaten.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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When youre on your deathbed, you probably arent counting the movies youve made. – Kristen Wiig

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