Quotes About Society

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.

I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.

Every woman should marry - and no man.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.