"We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the……" — Jose Mujica
"We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We had Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, please. To say it's modern, come on, it's older than we are. It's an objective reality that it exists. For us, not legalizing it would be to torture people needlessly."
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Jose Mujica
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45 Quotes by Jose Mujica
Jose Mujica has 45 quotes on this site.
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I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For…
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It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay.…
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We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our…
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It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume,…
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We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in…
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From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So…
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Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if…
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As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but…
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Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those…
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What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their…
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Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good…
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I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a…
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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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