Havelock Ellis

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war read more

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is read more

Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.