There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
When one has love for God one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife children relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye creating works of psychic and physical power.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.