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Quotes About Society

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
~ Emma Goldman
Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.
~ Florynce Kennedy
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.
~ Orson Scott Card
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
~ Federico Fellini
Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
~ William Rehnquist
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
~ Harriet Martineau
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.
~ Pat Roberts
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
~ Jack Kingston
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
~ William Shakespeare
Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.
~ Nujood Ali
Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
~ Dora Russell
I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?
~ Rick Warren
All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
~ Victoria Woodhull
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
~ Moliere
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
~ Imtiaz Ali
Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
~ James Dobson
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
~ John Grisham