"If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility â€” just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns â€” providing they are not denied equal protection"

-- John Holdren

#Children Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.”
“How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?”
“Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.”
“This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.”
“I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”
“An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.”
“Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.142, The Floating Press

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