The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents detailing the sordid unrave...
The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse liberalism of the police. But just as pure oxygen is impossible to breathe, so liberalism without the police principle...
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the c...
The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus giving freer rein to the passions which sweep a state into war and prevent it getting out—at any point ...
American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the cour...
If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outw...
The concurrence of two elements is necessary for bringing about a revolution; and by revolution I do not mean the street warfare, nor the bloody conflicts of two parties—both being mere incidents dependent upon many circumstances—but the sudden o...
Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of .
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
I don't believe love or sexual pleasure is a zero-sum game.
I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.
we live in a world where singles are more sexual active than couples
I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
