"To forbid birth is only quicker murder." — Tertullian

"To forbid birth is only quicker murder."

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95 Quotes by Tertullian

Tertullian has 95 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,…
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come…
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks,…
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all…
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps…
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while…
Patience is God's nature.
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of…
[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance,…

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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
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of… — Edward Abbey
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion… — Pope Benedict XVI
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes… — Tony Blair
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;… — Julie Burchill
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies… — Edmund Burke
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else. — Barbara Bush
I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion. — Barbara Bush
I do not believe abortion should be legal. — Herman Cain
Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again… — Tony Campolo
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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