"Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children"

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Source : Gro Harlem Brundtland (1993). “Population, Environment and Development”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Pregnancy Quotes

“The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.”
“...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.”
“Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.”

Source : Whole Living Magazine, 2004.
“As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.”
“When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.”
“I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.”
“The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.”

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