Quotes About Institution Of Marriage

#1. Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be redefined by activist judges. For the good of families, children and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage.

George W. Bush

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Christina Engela

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

Tim Huelskamp

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Paul Singer

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. 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

#15. When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

Mark Udall

#16. I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.

Sonam Kapoor

#17. Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

James Dobson

#18. If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?
Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.

Edith Wharton

#19. Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

Rick Santorum

#20. The institution of marriage is obsolete

Jane Fonda

#21. If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

Nicolle Wallace

#22. Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

John Boehner

#23. 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

#24. Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

John Sentamu

#25. 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

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

Lara Flynn Boyle

#27. 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

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

Kyle Chandler

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

Sunday Adelaja

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Doug Stanhope

#33. 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

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

Jens Spahn

#35. 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

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

Iain Duncan Smith

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

Alice Becker-Ho

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

Azar Nafisi

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

Susan Faludi

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

Karen DeCrow

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

Theodore Zeldin

#42. 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

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

Rachel Bilson

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

Shahid Kapoor

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

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

Theresa May

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

James Dobson

#55. 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

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

Elena Ferrante

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

Vincent Nichols

#62. Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether.

Sabrina Jeffries

#63. Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.

Conan O'Brien

#64. I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

Marisa Tomei

#65. The home is basically a sacred institution ... Faith in Christ is the most important of all principles in the building of a happy marriage and a successful home.

Billy Graham

#66. 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

#67. Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

Timothy Murphy

#68. Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is holiness to the Lord.

Jeremy Taylor

#69. See marriage as a man must, a good, sensible workaday institution; but awfully curbing to one's liberty. Somehow, after you're married forever, life has lost its feeling of adventure. There aren't any romantic possibilities waiting to surprise you around each corner.

Jean Webster

#70. Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

#71. If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Tony Campolo

#72. There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Keith O'Brien

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

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

Honore De Balzac

#80. 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

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

Tony Campolo

#82. 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

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

Rush Limbaugh

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

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

Susan Sontag

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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