“It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”
Source: Small Great Things
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Source: Miracle of the Rose

His reaction to a baby announcement on a SFBA social mailing list (21 February 1993), as quoted in "RMS -vs- Doctor, on the evils of Natalism" at Art.net http://www.art.net/Studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html
1990s
Context: Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult achievement — even some fish can do it. (Now, if you were a seahorse, it would be more interesting, since it would be the male that gave birth.)... These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation.
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First Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), p. 262
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)

“It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.”
Source: Solipsist

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”