Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.