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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

— Havelock Ellis

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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

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

Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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