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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
All commandments that I give must be obeyed unless they are revoked by me or by my authority and how can I… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage,… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
In America, as was the topic earlier about polygamy, consenting adults are supposed to do - be able to do whatever they… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a… — Tom Robbins 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“If you tell me a person cannot have multiple Twin Flames because you do not believe in more than one, I trust… — Sebastyne Alpha Copy Share Image
I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“I'm not really sure why some people automatically jump to "polygamy" when they hear gay marriage. When I hear "gay marriage" I… — G. Xavier Robillard Copy Share Image
I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to… — Charles W. Penrose Copy Share Image
I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible… — Carol Lynn Pearson 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
The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family… — Ramzan Kadyrov Copy Share Image
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![“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.” quote by Jon Krakauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/jon-krakauer-1557_crime_i-lorna-craig-would-say-that-teaching-a_1061953.jpg)
