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

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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each others nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. – 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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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis

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Other Quotes from
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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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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

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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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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Morality

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