Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
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 EllisOf woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock EllisOn the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
Havelock EllisIt 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 Ellis