The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
