quotes about Circumcision
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The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision...
-- Adolf Hitler -
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.
-- George Carlin -
Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.
-- Jacques Derrida -
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Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.
-- Jeannine Parvati Baker -
Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
-- Mark Hoppus -
The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
-- Mel Brooks -
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the ***** was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.
-- Nawal El Saadawi -
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I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.
-- Thomas Szasz