"The aura of the theocratic death penalty for……" — Anthony Burgess

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to… - Anthony Burgess

"The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much."

— Anthony Burgess

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,… — Bono
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,… — Samuel Butler
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do… — Jimmy Carter
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a… — W. Somerset Maugham
Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other… — Dan Savage
The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and… — R.J. Rushdoony
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have… — St. Jerome

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