"It would be a real failure if agreeing……" — Rowan Williams
"It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue."
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61 Quotes by Rowan Williams
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
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Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate…
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We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy…
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It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is…
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What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has…
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible…
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I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done…
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Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
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The past is what the present is doing now.
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has,…
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I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy,…
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Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God:…
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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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