Top 100 The Unborn Quotes
#1. A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.
Russell Hoban
#2. I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.
Rob Bishop
#3. For too long the pro-life movement has been shouting conclusions rather than establishing facts. Staying focused on the status of the unborn brings moral clarity to the abortion debate.
Scott Klusendorf
#4. Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own ... Stand still, be quiet.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#5. Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.
Pope Francis
#6. Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.
James Cameron
#7. I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
Jim Gibbons
#8. Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern
Bankei Yotaku
#9. For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.
Vine Deloria Jr.
#10. If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
Jacques Barzun
#11. The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
John Calvin
#12. The dead and the unborn make their presence known through traditions, institutions, and laws.
Roger Scruton
#13. For this, Love is enraged with me;
Yet kills not. If I must example be
To future rebels, if the unborn
Must learn by my being cut up and torn,
Kill and dissect me, Love; for this
Torture against thine own end is:
Racked carcasses make ill anatomies
John Donne
#15. My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
Jack Dreyfus
#16. Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?
Dennis Prager
#17. The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.
Henry Van Dyke
#18. For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.
George Orwell
#19. Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#20. If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
Jonah Goldberg
#21. Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.
Pope Francis
#22. Whatever else abortion does, it does not promote the life of the unborn child.
R.C. Sproul
#23. She was looking at the unborn secret of the Buena Esperanza Pass, she knew that this was oil drawn out of shale by some method men had considered impossible.
Ayn Rand
#24. It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn.
Will Self
#25. It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
Thom Yorke
#27. The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.
E.L. Doctorow
#28. As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will continue to fight this atrocity on behalf of the unborn, and I hope my colleagues will support me in doing so.
Paul Broun
#29. If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.
Alan Keyes
#30. Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.
Gautama Buddha
#31. Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
Sam Brownback
#32. The living of Laudomia frequent the house of the unborn to interrogate them: footsteps echo beneath the hollow domes; the questions are asked in silence; and it is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come.
Italo Calvino
#33. The washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace.
Thomas Harris
#34. The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Abraham Lincoln
#35. Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.
Chanakya
#36. I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent.
Jeb Bush
#37. The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#38. 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
Ramez Naam
#39. When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins.
George W. Bush
#40. Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.
James Dobson
#41. No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
Jim DeMint
#42. To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.
Jomo Kenyatta
#43. There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician, if I cause any harm to a fetus, I will be sued. If someone kills or harms a fetus they're liable in a court of law.
Ron Paul
#44. People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.
Emily Schultz
#45. I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.
Greg Gutfeld
#46. We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
Candice S. Miller
#47. When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.
Ronald Reagan
#48. When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.
Joan Raphael-Leff
#49. If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.
Greg Koukl
#50. Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.
Pope Francis
#51. The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II
#52. Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!
Ernest Holmes
#53. We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life
the unborn
without diminishing the value of all human life ... there is no cause more important.
Ronald Reagan
#54. The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.
Lawrence Durrell
#55. I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
A. Whitney Brown
#56. Accepting and walking in a good counsel paves way for the unborn generation
Sunday Adelaja
#57. We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amilcar Cabral
#58. I deplore the horrible crime as child murder ... no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed ... but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
Susan B. Anthony
#59. The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we are to serve eternal life.
Wes Jackson
#60. A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
Pope John Paul II
#61. My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.
Robert Casey
#62. Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#63. Krishna was the unborn original Personality of Godhead, appearing on earth to destroy demonic men and to establish the eternal religion, pure love of God.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#64. Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!
Mark Lawrence
#65. Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.
Theodore Roosevelt
#66. When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.
Bankei Yotaku
#67. Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#68. One of the most distinguishing differences between liberals and conservatives in America is that the average Liberal feels that we should have little reservation about killing the unborn, while the average Conservative feels it is better to wait until after they are born before we kill them.
Derek R. Audette
#69. After we've discovered what God called us to do, after we've discovered our life's work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#70. Within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe.
Eric Butterworth
#71. From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the wisdom arises the seed syllable and from the seed syllable arises the complete Mandala, the deity and the retinue.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#72. Like the pro-slavery forces who invaded Kansas, the pro-abortion forces in Washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder; that being born is worse than death; that the unborn baby is property, not a person.
Tim Huelskamp
#73. Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.
Edmund Burke
#74. If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.
Ronald Reagan
#75. Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
Roger Scruton
#76. One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.
Ayn Rand
#77. Perhaps there will come a time when ... an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood ... and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.
Caroline Norton
#78. Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world ... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
Abraham Lincoln
#79. The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
Norma McCorvey
#80. We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.
Tony Campolo
#81. The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul
George W. Bush
#82. To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
#85. There are generations yet unborn,
whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
Andy Andrews
#86. Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able to accept religion it captured his heart and enslaved his mind. The supreme delusion united with the supreme host.
C.J. Anderson
#87. The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone... Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.
Bill McKibben
#89. There are demons and there are evil people in the world And you post a picture like that, and some cultist gets a hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child.
Pat Robertson
#90. And yet the irony was that she soon placed herself in the margins voluntarily, giving up work for family, because she imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about unborn children than unwritten books.
Matt Haig
#91. Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
James Branch Cabell
#92. There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
Clifton Fadiman
#93. The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil
#94. Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved ...
how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth ...
echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal chords ...
Brandi L. Bates
#95. No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
R.C. Sproul
#96. We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan
#97. Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.
Laozi
#98. The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.
Richard Dawkins
#99. The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.
Anurag Shourie
#100. The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
Robert Casey
