....nature Imposes Nothing On You

It Is Said That Water Is For Cattle And Farmers, That Milk Is For Children And Blood For Men.

Ask For An Omen, Then Stone It When It Comes -- De Essentia Hominum.

The Captain Looked Defensive. "you Regard Our Customs As Primitive?"every Society To Its Own Tastes, Captain. The Wisdom Of One Society Would Be Folly For Another. Who Is Qualified To Judge? Only The Universe, Which Passes The Judgment Of Survival On All Peoples.

What's To Be Believed? Or Does It Matter At All? When Mass Murder's Been Answered With Mass Murder, Rape With Rape, Hate With Hate, There's No Longer Much Meaning In Asking Whose Ax Is Bloodier. Evil, On Evil, Piled On Evil. Was There Any Justification In Our 'police Action' In Space? How Can We Know? Certainly There Was No Justification For What They Did - Or Was There? We Only Know What That Thing Says, And That Thing Is A Captive. The Asian Radio Has To Say What Will Least Displease It's Government; Ours Has To Say What Will Least Displease Our Fine Patriotic Opinionated Rabble, Which Is What, Coincidentally, The Government Wants It To Say Anyhow, So Where's The Difference?

Speak Up, Destiny, Speak Up! Destiny Always Seems Decades Away, But Suddenly It's Not Decades Away; It's Right Now. But Maybe Destiny Is Always Right Now, Right Here, Right This Very Instant, Maybe.