What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.