Do Not Think That One Has To

Sexual Behavior Is Not, As Is Too Often Assumed, A Superimposition Of, On The One Hand, Desires Which Derive From Natural Instincts, And, On The Other Hand, Of Permissive Or Restrictive Laws Which Tell Us What We Should Or Shouldn't Do. Sexual Behavior Is More Than That.

Justice Must Always Question Itself, Just As Society Can Exist Only By Means Of The Work It Does On Itself And On Its Institutions.

In Its Function, The Power To Punish Is Not Essentially Different From That Of Curing Or Educating.

One Makes War To Win, Not Because It's Just.

Methodologically Speaking, The Rejection By [john] Boswell Of The Categorical Opposition Between Homosexual And Heterosexual, Which Plays Such A Significant Role In The Way Our Culture Conceives Of Homosexuality, Represents An Advance Not Only In Scholarship But In Cultural Criticism As Well.