Civilization Quote by Havelock Ellis

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

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The mother is the child's supreme parent.

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All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

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Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

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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…

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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves…

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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…

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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his…

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“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

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