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“Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.”

Men Desire Humanity Sex Sides Source Shapes Wounds Lust Mysterious Organs Confusing Tumors Deformity

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.”

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.”

Humans Persons Humanity Sex Accepting Worst Becoming Bed Dignity Sells Selling Agreement Obliged Prostitution Human Dignity

Author:Kate Millett

“In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations.”

“How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.”

Men Sometimes Matter Moving Humanity Sex Men And Women Feminine Behaviour Masculine

Book:The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel

Source: The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel

“The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.”

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Author:Shulamith Firestone

“If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.”

Ifs Humans Humanity Individual Lost Sex Human Nature Balls

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Sex in general, for me, is a lot of different aspects of humanity, not just my relationships. It's my relationship to myself and my body.”

Different Body Humanity Sex Aspect

Author:Margaret Cho

“Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.”

Ifs Way Together Humanity Sex Members Married Relation Complicated

Author:Cleveland Amory

“It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.”

Source: Sexual Politics

“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.”

“Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.”

Humans Values Humanity Sex Rights Equal Dignity West Human Rights Locals Preference Ethnicity

Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

“We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.”

May Humanity Sex Example Baby Normal Relation Trends Capability Homosexuality Viewpoints Assessment

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller