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

 

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


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

Henry Ellis

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

Henry Ellis

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Henry Ellis

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

Henry Ellis

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.

Henry Ellis