Marriage Institution Quotes

#1. And if you determine to run your marriage your way, you're in for a lot of trouble, because marriage is God's institution.

Timothy Keller

#2. The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

Tim Huelskamp

#3. The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?

Christina Engela

#4. Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

Keith O'Brien

#5. It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

Kendrick Meek

#6. Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.

Peter S. Prescott

#7. Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Gene Simmons

#8. I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#9. I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#10. I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Mitt Romney

#11. Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

Karen DeCrow

#12. If love were a requirement for marriage, the human race would have no need for the institution.

J.R. Ward

#13. The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Theodore Zeldin

#14. A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.

Adolf Hitler

#15. President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

Tony Campolo

#16. Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

David Vitter

#17. Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

Kay Hagan

#18. We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Ken Calvert

#19. Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

Dorothy Richardson

#20. Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#21. Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

Rachel Bilson

#22. Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

August Strindberg

#23. And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

Mitt Romney

#24. If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

Edmund White

#25. I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

Phyllis Schlafly

#26. The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined by our Creator - for His glory and for human flourishing.

Albert Mohler

#27. Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.

George W. Bush

#28. Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution."
"Marriage is an institution," he said.

Lisa Kleypas

#29. A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.

Elisabeth Elliot

#30. It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Theresa May

#32. If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

James Dobson

#33. Marriage is a wonderful institution ... but who wants to live in an institution?

Groucho Marx

#34. Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

Susan Sontag

#35. The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#36. Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.

Elena Ferrante

#37. I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

Isla Fisher

#38. In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.

Tim Huelskamp

#39. In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

Clarence Thomas

#40. Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.

Paul Singer

#41. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

Jenna Elfman

#42. Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it,

Mike Huckabee

#43. Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love," writes Coontz.

Aziz Ansari

#44. So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married?

Sonia Sotomayor

#45. Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Jeff Sessions

#46. As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Joseph P. Bradley

#47. As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.

John C. Danforth

#48. We can even see the legal institution of marriage as a precommitment strategy, not unlike that of Ulysses in approaching the Sirens, in which people knowingly choose a legal status that will protect them against their own errors.

Richard H. Thaler

#49. When life expectancy hit 95 years of age, married people around the world shouted, "Enough!" And just like that, the institution of marriage was reinvented.

Katherine Valdez

#50. There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

Philip Hammond

#51. Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Mitt Romney

#52. Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

Rajneesh

#53. Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

Charlize Theron

#54. Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

Rush Limbaugh

#55. The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

Jeff Miller

#56. Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Joan Fontaine

#57. Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Tony Campolo

#58. It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.

Jens Spahn

#59. Look, do you believe in the institution of marriage?" "Of course." "And you accept that such beautiful lightning cannot strike you twice?" "Well yes, I suppose - " "Then shouldn't you get a ring on her as soon as possible?

Chris Cleave

#60. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Doug Stanhope

#61. Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition.

Margaret H. Marshall

#62. Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Honore De Balzac

#63. Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

Rick Santorum

#64. The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.

Jenna McCarthy

#65. I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

#66. It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

Alveda King

#67. Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such
as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association
the going will be hard indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

#68. Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Ben Carson

#69. God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure.

Sunday Adelaja

#70. People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

Jessica Valenti

#71. Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#72. I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.

David Cameron

#73. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

Henry Adams

#74. I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

Kyle Chandler

#75. Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

Ashley Montagu

#76. The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on sexual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.

Scott Lively

#77. Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

James McGreevey

#78. It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#79. I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.

Dale Peck

#80. For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a way to well-being?

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#81. [On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

Susan Sontag

#82. I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#83. Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

Todd Tiahrt

#84. I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall of their bikes and choke on ocean water.

Sloane Crosley

#85. Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

Swami Vivekananda

#86. No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution - but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.

H. Kirk Rainer

#87. Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

Jack Kingston

#88. Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

#89. In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.

Ken Blackwell

#90. I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Lauren Bacall

#91. The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed

Gary Chapman

#92. It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony.

Azar Nafisi

#93. Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born?

Rajneesh

#94. Marriage felt like a fading American institution, as relevant to me as the Elks Club. Plus, I considered myself punk rock, and punk rockers don't believe in boring societal conventions like marriage. We prefer boring societal conventions like punk rock.

Michael Ian Black

#95. A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Susan Faludi

#96. We loved each other and sometimes we loved other people, but we had no respect for the institution of marriage.

Alice Becker-Ho

#97. Marriage is a great institution.

Elizabeth Taylor

#98. There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Iain Duncan Smith

#99. The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.

Leo Tolstoy

#100. But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman.

Ann Coulter