"In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically……" — Italo Calvino
"In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman."
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he…
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same…
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More Abortion Quotes
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes…
— Tony Blair
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
— Julie Burchill
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies…
— Edmund Burke
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
— Barbara Bush
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
— Barbara Bush
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I do not believe abortion should be legal.
— Herman Cain
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Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again…
— Tony Campolo
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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
— Tony Campolo
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