“If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work. — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies. — Charles W. Penrose Copy Share Image
You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives. — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry. — Carla Bruni 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
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
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
“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
“Arabs are wealthy today because of their marriage system. They are not bothered by polygamy or the after-effects of divorce.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things… — John Taylor 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 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
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
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
“Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives.… — Colleen Chen Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I think men that have not been in polygamy, and I was one of them, fantasize about polygamy. Fantasize. It is fantasy.… — Patricia Dixon 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
“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
“Rather than polygyny needing an explanation, it is monogamy that may need to be explained.” — Patricia Dixon 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
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman. — William Law 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
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
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