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- I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none…
- Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it…
- Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make…
- Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
- The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.
- Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a…
- Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in…
- Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and…
- The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication,…
- Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to…
- Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for…
- In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
- The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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