In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

It is hard I submit to loathe bloodshed including war more than I do but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

When we think of the major threats to our national security the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores one from nature not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.