One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“The lives of the older Da Silvas were empty and sad. They mourned the Slave Trade as a lost Golden Age when… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Saint George, a social terrarium in which the men think they are living in a Mormon polygamy, while the women consider it… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' … until they fall for a man that likes them back; but isn’t willing to leave… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
I don't think our system, where we have one romantic partner, where we get married and we're only supposed to have sex… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Cheating in relationship is a sign of self-regulation failure. When it happens ones, it is a mistake. When it happens twice, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres.… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams… — Jeanne Tripplehorn Copy Share Image
Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“They'll say you are bad or perhaps you are mad or at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bare… — David Rovics Copy Share Image
... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it… — Benjamin F. Johnson Copy Share Image
