Celibacy Quotes

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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a… — Sam Manekshaw
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and… — Adolf Hitler
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy. — Isaac Newton
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H. L. Mencken
What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your… — Rajneesh
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent — Socrates
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human… — P.D. James
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over… — Noah Levine
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. — Peter De Vries
When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. — Lena Dunham
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death. — Franz Kafka
No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when… — Kevin Myers
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros… — Pope Francis
Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You can force it.… — Rajneesh
And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by violence.… — Rajneesh

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