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

Henry Ellis

Time

Civilization

Revolution

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

Henry Ellis

Faith

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Henry Ellis

Beliefs

Man

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

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.

Henry Ellis

Country

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Henry Ellis

Artist

Autobiography

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Henry Ellis

Beauty

Absence

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

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

Henry Ellis

Men

Leader

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Henry Ellis

War

Nothing

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

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Henry Ellis

Optimism

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.