Marriage Is An Institution Quotes

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

Honore De Balzac

#2. 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

#3. Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Les Dawson

#4. I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

Zak Orth

#5. 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

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

Gene Simmons

#7. Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. 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

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 The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which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

#10. 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

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

Rajneesh

#12. You see how deviously the institution of marriage threads itself through a woman's life? If she does not marry she is perpetually a child - until she is suddenly an old woman, that is.

Fiona Hill

#13. Marriage is not an institution. It's a relationship.

William Paul Young

#14. In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.

Adolf Hitler

#15. 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

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

Groucho Marx

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Mike Huckabee

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Lara Flynn Boyle

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

Dorothy Richardson

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

Phyllis Schlafly

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

Susan Sontag

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

Mae West

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Joan Fontaine

#33. 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

#34. 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