We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
The truth is that humans have the potential to be horrific. And I think being conscious of that is important.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
The body has a mind of its own.
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