Under Fire (1916), Ch. 24 - The Dawn
Context: I tell them that fraternity is a dream, an obscure and uncertain sentiment; that while it is unnatural for a man to hate one whom he does not know, it is equally unnatural to love him. You can build nothing on fraternity. Nor on liberty, either; it is too relative a thing in a society where all the elements subdivide each other by force.
But equality is always the same. Liberty and fraternity are words while equality is a fact. Equality should be the great human formula — social equality, for while individuals have varying values, each must have an equal share in the social life; and that is only just, because the life of one human being is equal to the life of another. That formula is of prodigious importance. The principle of the equal rights of every living being and the sacred will of the majority is infallible and must be invincible; all progress will be brought about by it, all, with a force truly divine. It will bring first the smooth bed-rock of all progress — the settling of quarrels by that justice which is exactly the same thing as the general advantage.
“Fraternal warfare, and alternate reigns fought for in unnatural hate.”
Fraternas acies alternaque regna profanis
decertata odiis.
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 1
Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 5, sect. 2
“I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise….”
Postcards from the Edge (1987)
“I have lived such an unnatural life, devoid of love, sex, and pleasure.”
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Perspective on incelness
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.436
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
Context: When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.
