If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned. — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example. — Tom Green Copy Share Image
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it. — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
“Rather than polygyny needing an explanation, it is monogamy that may need to be explained.” — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
“Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Promoting promiscuity in this evolved and civilized society is actually like signing the Declaration, that says: “I hereby renounce my membership of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“My Name is Pansy Roger from Toronto, Canada. I am sharing this testimony because someone out there may have similar problem. My… — Pansy Roger Copy Share Image
The Second Way in which a wife can be separated from her husband, while he continues to be faithful to his God… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family;… — Benjamin F. Johnson Copy Share Image
Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when Joseph asked him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I think in the next 50 years relationships and intimate relationships will be redefined, because they have to be. I don't know… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
“Both polygamy and divorce, on the other hand, increased opportunities for reproduction—not for women, but for the men who wrote the laws… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
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