Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing. — Pam Bondi Copy Share Image
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Rick Santorum doesn't like sex. He doesn't like the pill. He really doesn't like condoms. He said if men are going to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was… — Kate Noble Copy Share Image
There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Love is essential to the survival of human beings; it is the greatest spur there is to that driving impulse of every… — Fran Cohen Praver Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and… — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
“I have a fleeting fantasy of telling her that procreation isn't a contest, any more than SAT scores and making the cheerleading… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs.” — Laura C. Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The desideratum of the philosophy “better to have never been” is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
By shrewdly linking procreation to an act likely to make you stupid with excitement, God has seen to it that Life does… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
