"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." ― Havelock Ellis Topic(s): Change More From Havelock Ellis "In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists." "Man lives by imagination." "I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness." More In Change "Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."― Plutarch "Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children."― Ron Fournier