Rick Perry Quotes

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

We need to teach responsibility not legislate morality, because the vows of abstinence break far more easily than latex condoms.

You've been preaching abstinence as long as you've been preaching. But I've still got a problem.

Let us be brave and change our life style. Let us stick to our single partners and stop over-indulging. If we cannot do it, let us use condoms.

Men who refrain from sexual acts are frequently stronger, owing to their conservation of energy.

Listen, one doesn't need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence.

I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

Celibacy is exhausting.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete’s sake.

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.