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Marriage Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
- The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view…
- Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
- Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
- A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
- Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than…
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory,…
- St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one…
- Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work
- Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin.
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