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The Greatest Task Before Civilization At Present Is To Make Machines What They Ought To Be, The Slaves, Instead Of The Masters Of Men.
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines
what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
-- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), "Little Essays of Love and Virtue", 1922
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What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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Slaves do it for the masters.
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