It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
Havelock EllisWe cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
Havelock EllisThe parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock EllisFor 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.
Havelock EllisSex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock EllisHad there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.
Havelock Ellis