Birth Control Quotes

• 

  Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Women, Goal, Important

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Method, Sensible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Self Restraint V. Self-indulgence”

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birth, Objections

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.64, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  39 Copy quote

• If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Would Be, Safe

  "Women Superior - That's No Garbage". New York Times News Service, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 06, 1986.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Independent, Doe

  Woman and the New Race ch. 8 (1920)

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Women, Memorable

  Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Freedom, Women

  56 Copy quote

• We're more effective than birth control pills.

  Johnny Carson

  Pills, Comedy, Birth Control Pills

  6 Copy quote

• Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

  Roseanne Barr

  Kids, Night, Bed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Hunger, Remedy

  "Portrait of a Planet" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 1971.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

  Louise Slaughter

  Children, Care, Want

  6 Copy quote

• More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Fit, Chiefs

  17 Copy quote

• Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?

  Benny Hill

  Hilarious, Sarcastic, People

  166 Copy quote

• Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

  Robert Rubin

  Funny, Naughty, Sunglasses

  35 Copy quote

• It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

  Clare Short

  Country, Needs, Easy

  20 Copy quote

• Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

  Dick Durbin

  Years, People, Common

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Parent, Want, Birth

  Dustin Hoffman's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. April 14, 1980.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Educational, Successful

  58 Copy quote

• Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  The Last Goon Show of All

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

  Margaret Smith

  Naughty, Contraception, Contraceptives

  6 Copy quote

• [W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

  Harold B. Lee

  Earth, Sin, Retribution

  5 Copy quote

• No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

  Emma Goldman

  Responsibility, Demand, Too Much

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Eugenics, Planned Parenthood

  18 Copy quote

• As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Class

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source