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Quotes About Society

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes
~ Robert Lowell
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
~ Benjamin Franklin
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Heiresses are never jilted.
~ George Meredith
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure
~ Julie Christie
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
~ Aeschylus
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
~ Nancy Pearcey
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
~ James Dobson
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
~ Ken Blackwell
Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.
~ Tim Huelskamp
Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.
~ George Michael
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?
~ Sue Townsend
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.
~ Bill Maher
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
~ Samuel Richardson
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
~ Keith O'Brien
Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
~ Vaughn Walker
What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.
~ Dorothy Osborne
To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.
~ Dorothy Osborne
Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
~ Myrtle Reed
Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.
~ Newt Gingrich