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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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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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

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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

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

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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

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