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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities...A life is beautiful and ideal, or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

— Havelock Ellis Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

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

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

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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.

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

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