Henry Morgentaler quotes

Henry Morgentaler quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other people by force or by whatever other means.”
-- Henry Morgentaler

#Religious Quotes #Mean Quotes #Long Quotes
“Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother.”
-- Henry Morgentaler

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Abortion Quotes
“I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.”
-- Henry Morgentaler

#Children Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Attention Quotes
“I am not pro-abortion any more than I am pro-appendectomy.”
-- Henry Morgentaler

#Abortion Quotes #Pro Abortion Quotes

“Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.”
“I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic”
“I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22
“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
“Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.”
“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”
“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”
“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”

Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press

You may also like:

Bernard Nathanson
Medical doctor
Brian Mulroney
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Jack Layton
Member of the Canadian House of Commons
Jean Charest
Political leader
Jean Chretien
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Jerome Lejeune
John A. Macdonald
Former Prime Minister of Canada
John Diefenbaker
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Lester B. Pearson
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Lucien Bouchard
Lawyer
Margaret Sanger
Activist
Margaret Trudeau
Author
Norma McCorvey
Pierre Trudeau
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Sarah Weddington
Attorney at law
Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
Terry Fox
Athlete
Tommy Douglas
Politician
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Former Prime Minister of Canada