Euthanasia Quotes - Page 5

• Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Believe, Elderly, Ignorant

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• When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Views, President, Want

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Publicity, Executives

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• If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

  Marc Newson

  Travel, Inspiration, Different

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• It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Hands, Birth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.330, Penguin

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• Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Facts

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• Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Catholic

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• Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may be compared to a great reservoir of water, supplied by a moderate stream. The faster population increases, the more help will be got to draw off the water, and consequently an increasing quantity will be taken every year. But the sooner, undoubtedly, will the reservoir be exhausted, and the streams only remain.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Years, Land

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.301, Penguin UK

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• The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Eugenics, Population

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Eugenics, Checks

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Disease, Fertility

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.366, Inkling Books

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• Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

  Christine Baranski

  Doors, Careers, Roles

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• The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

  Jamie Fellner

  Animal, People, United States

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• I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

  Jim Harrison

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

  Bruce Schneier

  Average, Answers, Internet Users

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• Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

  Evan Sayet

  White, House, Barack

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• Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Way, Film, Tarantino

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• Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

  Yancy Butler

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• And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

  Wanda Jackson

  Albums, Sweden, Firsts

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• My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

  Greg Norman

  Lying, Golf, Doctors

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

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• You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Answers, Knows

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• All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Mind, Consultants

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• The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.

  Gotz Aly

  Religious, Class, Wings

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• I think the Resurrection continues to be a pivotal issue, a pivotal question for people. I think a lot of other issues have been raised in interim years, about the nature of truth, of course gender issues, issues involving social matters like abortion and euthanasia and so forth, those swirl about and change from time to time, but I think the fundamental question of whether or not Christianity is true ultimately goes back to the Resurrection.

  Lee Strobel

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Christian, Doctors, Long

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