Havelock Ellis

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

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.

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

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.