Procreation Quotes - Page 2

• The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Plans

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• The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

  Thornton Wilder

  Faith, Children, Self

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.

  Gloria Feldt

  Sex, Motivation, Men

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• The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.

  William H. Coles

  Children, Food, Cooking

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• For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Men, Order

  Vera Brittain (2009). “Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925”, p.408, Hachette UK

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• Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, Years, Feelings

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• Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.

  Alice Cooper

  Education, Female, Study

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• Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Faces, Lost, Appeals

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• My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Pushing, Argument, Fit

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• If we're a natural man, we're attracted to a woman. You are our natural partner in the act of procreation. Now there's a time and a place for everything, but when a fine-looking woman, with a fine-looking form walks down the street, a man could be working with a jackhammer, and when he spies that woman, he'll watch her as she walks. What kind of thought comes up in your mind? You don't say, "Oh, what a great creature." Like a dog you may say, "Man, I'd sure like to have some of that!" That's not what you want.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Dog, Men, Mind

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

  Vincent Price

  Spiritual, Crazy, Inspiration

  Vincent Price (2016). “The Book of Joe: About a Dog and His Man”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.

  Alan Turing

  Children, Intelligent, Creating

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Children, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

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• Suppose a State said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?

  Elena Kagan

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

  Elena Kagan during Supreme Court Arguments on California Gay Marriage Ban, www.npr.org. March 26, 2013.

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• The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Exercise, Thinking

  The Morality of Birth Control, delivered 18 November 1921, Park Theatre, NY

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• The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

  Margaret Sanger

  Should, Diseased

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• Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

  Evelyn Waugh

  Children, Ridiculous, Pleasure

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

  Eric Clapton

  Sex, Ideas, Sound

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• Rick Santorum doesn't like sex. He doesn't like the pill. He really doesn't like condoms. He said if men are going to pull something on to prevent procreation, nothing works better that a sweater vest.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Men, Sweaters

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• Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction...No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous...homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Ideas, Challenges

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• ...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Summer, Heart, Wings

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

  David Benatar

  Life, Baby, Sex

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

  David Benatar

  Running, Long, Democracy

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.

  Joe Queenan

  Philosophy, Believe, Ocean

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• How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Christian, Abortion

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis”

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