Quote#God & Faith
You cannot dictate to any man what shall be his morality or his own…
Quote byEttie Rout · 1877–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Veneral Disease"] (1917) Northern Advocate, 29 December 1917, Page 4..
English (original)
You cannot dictate to any man what shall be his morality or his own religion. He must make his own choice. Your attempts to impose total sexual abstinence on him he regards as a meddlesome and impertinent interference with the expression of a natural instinct.
— Ettie Rout
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