Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulle…

- Christopher Ryan

But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

- Christopher Ryan

One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integr…

- Christopher Ryan

Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for ou…

- Christopher Ryan

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

- Christopher Ryan

If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth…

- Christopher Ryan

Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an…

- Christopher Ryan

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty …

- Christopher Ryan

You can slow time down by traveling. That month from Shringar to the Taj Mahal is like a year in my life currently. Really, time is a measure of chan…

- Christopher Ryan