Mormon Polygamy Quotes

#1. He smiled and it was beautiful and horrible what I saw in it. Hope that should not be born and desire that could never bear fruit. Whether they were my feelings or his, I did not know.

Gwen Hayes

#2. Unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord obviously thought rather kindly of.

Robert Farrar Capon

#3. If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

Andrew Solomon

#4. The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

Andrew Solomon

#5. Action creates/a taste/for itself.

Kay Ryan

#6. I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#7. Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

Gabriel Basso

#9. Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

Michael Crichton

#10. So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Scott Anderson

#11. If you want to change something, change it. Don't just sit around sighing all day like a balloon losing air.

Anonymous