Havelock Ellis - Social Quotes

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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.

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Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

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Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

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