“Without helmets and uniforms, it is impossible to tell their nationality; their naked bodies mark them only as human beings.”
“Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.”
“Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.”
“No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me.”
“An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation”
“It is utterly impossible to be happy without being grateful.”