Quotes

Note: These are quotes I have downloaded from the Net. They are not in any specific order.

Is it normal for us keep to our bodies covered in cloth 100% of the time? For some people, walking from the bathroom to the bedroom with no towel

handy will cause them extreme panic and stress. Is this healthy? Being naked should just be another form of dress, nothing more, nothing less.

Forcing others to wear clothes because we cannot control our own lust, is abuse of others.

A Nudist is simply a human being without 'Artificial Additives'!

If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.

"Don't let those who have body negative values define what is and what is not acceptable. Seize your freedom and restore your dignity!"-

BodyFreedom.org

When wearing only a smile - be sure to smile a lot.

THINGS YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN...Benjamin Franklin, U. S. statesman and inventor and --John Adams, U. S. President: Franklin, would you believe,

was a practicing 18th century nudist! He took his "air baths" by sitting in the buff in front of an open window. President Adams regularly swam

nude in the Potomac river. Anne Royall, a journalist, heard of Adam's early morning skinny dips. After being refused interviews with the

President several times, she went to the river, gathered his clothes and sat on them until he agreed to speak to her. Before this, no woman

journalist had ever interviewed a president. (Way to go, Annie!)

Have you ever noticed how a little child can run naked through a room full of strangers without embarrassment? Just as Adam and Eve were not

embarrassed in their innocence. But after Adam and Eve sinned, shame and awkwardness followed, creating barriers between themselves and God.

Ideally we have no barriers, feeling no embarrassment between each other or God. But, like Adam and Eve, we put on fig leaves (barriers) because

we have areas we don't want anyone or God to know about. Then we hide, just as Adam and Eve hid from God. Jesus died for our sins so there is no

longer any barriers we need to have. Jesus told us to be like little children in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Fig leaves belong on trees, not people. - Corky Stanton

"Clothes make the man, but nakedness makes the human being."- Kevin Kearney

"I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked."- Linda

Hamilton (actress), on what she'd do with a day to herself.

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the

garment with which it is clothed?"- Michaelangelo

Television nudity is accepted in Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia. Why not the United States?

Body shame, like prejudice, is not natural. It is learned from others and benefits no one.

"Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If

parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children

will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity"- Dr. Lee Salk, Psychiatrist

"I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any

clothes on."- P.J. Harvey, singer.

"I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state. I was born nude and I hope to be buried

nude."- Elle MacPherson, Australian model and actress.

"Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind"-Paul Outerbridge, Jr.

"On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary."- Dilbert

"The best thing to do would be to designate everywhere as clothing optional, and we could leave little fenced in areas for the prudes to prance

around in. Call them "Prudist Colonies". They could peer out of their fences and indulge in their offensive "I'm offended" behavior whenever they

saw a natural person walk by, without bothering the rest of us."- Anonymous

Why would anyone want to teach their children their bodies are disgusting, unacceptable and offensive to even look at? Why would anyone want to

teach their children self shame, self disgust and to despise their body or any one else's body? Why would anyone set a bad example to their

children by having a prejudicial bigotry against another group of people?

"Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing

the hideous things"- From Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In Style magazine, Kevin Bacon confesses he likes to cut a little footloose at home with his family every now and then -- naked. "Not when the

nanny is around," he says. "But I will with my wife and kids." Why? "There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's

and we're all the same."

"A nudist is not a body lacking something (that is, clothing). Rather, a clothed person is a whole and complete naked body, plus clothes."

How is it possible for the human body, which was created in the image of god, to be offensive to anybody? Satan would love to see God's greatest

creation be considered offensive.

"The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot,

or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that

being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they

aren't, there would be peace."- John Lennon

"I am not a naturist, a nudist, a streaker, nor an exhibitionist. Labels are for clothes. My unclothed appearance is also not motivated sexually

nor out of any gratuitous need to seek attention. I believe that while society continues to have a fundamentally negative relationship with the

human body and appearance, we can never be a free or mature society. It's the 21st century. Time to evolve."- Russell Higgs

"Forcing Americans to always wear clothing while swimming or sunbathing even in designated or secluded areas is as bad as forcing women to always

wear burkhas." - Corky Stanton

"To be offended by the visual appearance of another person is prejudice, akin to racism. The right to exist, uncovered, should hold precedence

over the right not to view this, for the objection is irrational."- Terri Webb

"I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil."- Charlize Theron

"We find that relaxing with clothes off at Elysium Fields is a great tension reliever, for ourselves and our kids too."- actress Lynn Redgrave

Fred Rogers, creator and star of the children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was 71 years old; has been married to his wife for 48 years;

is an ordained Presbyterian minister; and took a morning swim every day in the nude

Justin Timberlake wants to strip off on a nudist beach after spotting one in France. He said, "I was born naked and I'm going to die naked so I

don't see anything wrong with it."

HUMANITY AT PRESENT IS ILLEGAL. YOUR HUMAN BODY IS NOT ALLOWED. IT IS SUPPRESSED BECAUSE YOU ARE ILLEGAL - STOP THE OPPRESSION AND LEGALIZE

YOURSELF. IN REALITY, BEING HUMAN IS NOT A CRIME. From: The Freedom to be Yourself

If we aren't concerned about children seeing adult facial hair, then why are some concerned about children seeing adult pubic hair?

Warning: Clothing has been shown to cause extreme psychological dependence. Wear it at your own risk -- Ben Thornton

"Nudity is undignified and an error of taste"- Adolf Hitler

I think the main reason some people find breast feeding offensive is the fact that it reminds us that breasts are a food source and not an object

of male fantasy that is further facilitated by the legal system that says breasts cannot be seen unless they belong to a male. - Margaret Stone

Despite its puritan roots, the U.S. has a long history of skinny-dipping. Social nudity is celebrated in the writings of Walt Whitman and the

landscape paintings of Thomas Eakins. Benjamin Franklin took a daily naked "air bath," while presidents John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt and

Lyndon Johnson enjoyed a refreshing nude dip. According to National Geographic Magazine, John Quincy Adams (1825-29), the sixth President,

customarily took a nude early morning swim in the Potomac River.

Bathing led to nudity. Nudity led to promiscuity. So believed the colonial lawmakers of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Philadelphia was especially

strict in those early years. You could be jailed there bathing more than once a month.

"The human body: Legalize it"

"Don't arrest me I was born this way" - seen on a the body of a Naked Mile participant

"I enjoy nakedness. I am a bit of a naturist at heart."- Robbie Williams
 
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