Birth Control quotes
77 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
"The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence."
"The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful."
"A family reunion is an effective form of birth control."
"Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime."
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"Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?"
"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."
"I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer."
"My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children."
"When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine."
"The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently."
"We're more effective than birth control pills."
"Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia."
"I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person."
"The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature."
"Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method."
