Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.