The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.