Havelock Ellis Quotes

No government should dictate whether or when we should have children….Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

It's about time we make welfare contingent upon birth control.

In America, access to birth control is controlled by those who never use it.

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.

I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.