Cease Quote by Bertrand Russell

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the…

— Ellen Key

For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility…

— Vincent Nichols

Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers…

— William J Doherty

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law .…

— Joseph Story

Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going to live…

— Shashi Deshpande

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what…

— Mary Ann Glendon

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the…

— Robert Foster Bennett

Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and adult rights.…

— Mitt Romney

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

— Benjamin Carson

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

— Alfred Russel Wallace

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children…

— John Boehner