"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it." ― Havelock Ellis Topic(s): War More From Havelock Ellis "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." "The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable." "The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing." More In War "I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."― Karl Lagerfeld "John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."― Isaac Asimov "And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."― Dick Gregory