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— Elihu Root"The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature."
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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
— Bertrand Russell
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When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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