To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown that came with exposure to the sun?

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.