“Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited, I know that better than most. Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back- government has no place in the middle.” KnowsShouldGovernmentEarthSexMiddleLove YouCoupleShould HaveOur Time Author:Mark Kirk
“I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.” BelieveGovernmentAgeLyingIndividualI BelieveWishSexClearColorIntegrityConcernDignityEssenceAddWelfareCreedsInnateDecencyAncestryGovernment Lies Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.” IdeasFeelingsGovernmentSexBehindsLibertyGrowing UpGrowingFeetShoesChineseMaskDisabilityBrooksTurkishAntagonismDeep Feeling Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a new life comes into being with a complete genetic blueprint. The sex is determined. The blood type is determined. The moment that I learned the unborn was not part of the woman's body but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.” HumansMomentsBodyGovernmentChoicesIndividualSexHuman BeingsBloodTypeMurderDeterminedInnocentVulnerableConceptionNew LifeUnbornBlueprintsWomen's BodiesBlood Type Author:Kathy Ireland
“In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.” MenMadeUseFeelingsGovernmentAgeSexDifferencesRaceMoralElementsClimateVariousMetaphysicsMetaphysicalEmployedAesthetics Book:The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant
“No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.” BelieveReasonGovernmentI BelieveSexCivilizationReason WhyOne Sided Author:Nancy Astor
“A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.” GovernmentSexVoiceLibertyColorStandingVoteFirmHinderStand Firm Author:Frederick Douglass
“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.” WorldGivingIdeasRealCharacterGovernmentEyeSchoolSexTermChurchMoralOpinionSocietyFieldsMetsAmbitionTheaterUniversityMeritRealmsLazyCrownsStampsArenaPublic OpinionCradleFixingSpursPretensionCrucibleOutrunTribunals Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?” PeopleIfsWayWantTwoGovernmentFallSexFalling In Love Author:Bob Casey, Jr.
“Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.” MenGovernmentFormSufferingLeftSexBehindsForeverFeministShouldersInevitableSubtleSexismDiscoveringProvokingFederal GovernmentBacklash Author:Mona Charen
“I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.” GovernmentSocialSexGoneLifetimeSpreadConsiderationHomosexualityHomosexualTabooSanctionsShort TimeHomosexual Marriage Author:John Naisbitt
“It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey...An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.” FirstsMayEndsGovernmentAgeOrderSexExistenceTakenDecidedPaidRegardCriminalsGenocideTurkeysScruplesArmeniansArmenian Genocide Author:Talaat Pasha
“In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.” GovernmentFormPoliticalSexNaturalPrinciplesRightsFeetSubjectsCitizensHonorRepublicanFundamentalsInjusticePrivilegeCivil RightsGuiltyDoomedIgnoredCitizenshipForms Of GovernmentJudicialVerdictNatural RightsSubjectionYour HonorPolitical Rights Author:Susan B. Anthony
“When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.” MenStatesGovernmentWishSexGainsLaborIndependenceInstitutionsTrainConnectedProfessionEmploymentSecureDepartmentHonorableCompensation Author:Catharine Beecher
“If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming... the government stands ready to step in.” IfsGovernmentAmericaSexStepsViolenceReadyTvsInternetCleanProducersProgrammingFree SpeechUnwillingBloodshed Author:Janet Reno
“The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.” WantHumansWarFactsBigsGovernmentFacesSpiritualValuesSocialSexGoalRightsMiddleRevolutionMajorityCivil RightsOppositionBrotherhoodSweepingFacetsUpheavalSocial RevolutionSpiritual Values Author:Johnny Carson
“I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with dogs. I discussed some of the reasons that a person might want to live out of the control of our federal, state, local, and every other form of government. Actually, I don't think I even called myself a libertarian. I think Tom Shroder identified me as one.” ThinkingWantKindPersonsStatesReasonGovernmentMightFormSexDogLibertarianLocalsTomsForms Of Government Author:Dave Barry
“I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.” MenYearsLooksChildrenCountryGovernmentSexMillionsPlanetsIndustryInternetSafeSlaveryBillions Author:Patch Adams
“In America, as was the topic earlier about polygamy, consenting adults are supposed to do - be able to do whatever they want to each other... whether it's marrying multiple partners, marrying someone of the same sex, prostitution, marijuana. As long as you're not hurting anyone else, it's really none of the government's business.” WantLongGovernmentAbleAmericaSexHurtAdultsPartnersMarijuanaMultipleTopicsProstitutionMarryingPolygamyMarrying Someone Author:Max Kellerman
“There's always something new with sex. We lived in a world without Viagra, now we live in a world with Viagra. We lived in a world without blowjobs and anilingus in the Oval Office, and then it happens and you get to write about it. We live in a world where now the government is screwing with contraception and holding back vaccines that could save 4,000 women's lives a year, and you get to write about that. It's not as much fun as anilingus in the Oval Office, but what are you going to do? If you pay attention, there's always something new, and it's always really invigorating.” IfsWorldWritingYearsGovernmentHappensFunSexPayAttentionOfficePay AttentionSomething NewVaccinesContraceptionOvalHolding BackInvigoratingViagra Author:Dan Savage
“Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” DoeStatesBodyGovernmentSexLibertyTreeBloodCitizensAffairTyrannyAbortionTyrantsPatriot Author:Gore Vidal
“There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for more than 2,000 years, and the government is moving in that direction.” YearsHandsGovernmentMovingPoliticalSexChurchMoving In Author:Larry Flynt