Quotes About Circumcision

#1. Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

Warren Farrell

#2. You know what circumcision is, Private?

Bernard Cornwell

#3. If God welcomed newborns into Israel by means of ritual circumcision for two thousand years, why would He suddenly close the kingdom to babies because they could not understand ritual baptism?

Scott Hahn

#4. Oskar pushes away the blanket. Lies looking down at his naked body. His naked body that will give the lie to any false identity papers he manages to procure. Has anyone, he wonders, ever explained to me the significance of circumcision? Why I have had to sacrifice to God a piece of my sexual organ.

Glenn Haybittle

#5. Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

Brad Sherman

#6. I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.

Thomas Szasz

#7. Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

Jeannine Parvati Baker

#8. The wealthiest and most popular boy at the circumcision school.

Nelson Mandela

#9. There was no circumcision. Lee said circumcision was dreamed up by moralists and lotion salesmen to make hand jobs chafe, and Peggy deferred to his better judgement.

Nell Zink

#10. In the ancient Near East, circumcision was practiced by most of the nations. Here God radically changes, for his own people, the meaning of this common cultural practice.

Craig G. Bartholomew

#11. It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.

Maimonides

#12. If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

Richard Dawkins

#13. They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.

Robin Williams

#14. Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.

Brad Sherman

#15. Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.

Brad Sherman

#16. The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on the world: Circumcision for the body and conscience for the soul. I come to free mankind from their shackles.

Adolf Hitler

#17. There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.

Rick Moranis

#18. Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.

John Stott

#19. The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision
it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

Mel Brooks

#20. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Did god make man too perfect,
So that a piece has to be removed
through circumcision?

A.J. Beirens

#22. I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

George Carlin

#23. The Ten Commandments have lost their validity ... Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision ...

Adolf Hitler

#24. Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.

Watchman Nee

#25. ROM2.29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Anonymous

#26. Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.

Jacques Derrida

#27. For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.

Ben Aaronovitch

#28. Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

John Money

#29. The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from ... Circumcision of the heart.

Dallas Willard

#30. When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

Warren Farrell

#31. Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

Joe Orton

#32. CDC Considers Counseling Males Of All Ages On Circumcision.

National Public Radio

#33. Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

Mark Hoppus

#34. Sight without color would be a good analogy...only being able to see in black and white rather than seeing in full color would be like experiencing an orgasm with a foreskin and without. There are feelings you'll just never have without the foreskin.

Kristen O'Hara

#35. ...I'm restoring my foreskin because I was born with one, and damn it, I'm going to die with one.

Kristen O'Hara

#36. ...I asked a friend if he felt 'different' when he was the only uncircumcised man in the shower and he said,'Yes, gloriously different.

Kristen O'Hara

#37. The chamber-maid had left no ******* *** under the bed: - Cannot you contrive, master, quoth Susannah, lifting up the sash with one hand, as she spoke, and helping me up into the window seat with the other, - cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time to **** *** ** *** ******?

Laurence Sterne