Institutions Quote by Iain Duncan Smith

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

— Gene Robinson

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined…

— Keith O'Brien

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

— George Bernard Shaw

The origins of modern marital instability lie largely in the triumph of what many people believe to be marriage's traditional role - providing love,…

— Stephanie Coontz

“Marriage might be seen, in part, as a solution to a self-control problem, in which people take steps to increase the likelihood that their…

— Richard H. Thaler

There's a lot to be said about stability. So many people don't get married nowadays - you see it less and less - but…

— Boyd Holbrook

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects...

— Spencer W. Kimball

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

— Caitlin Flanagan

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

— Susan Faludi

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

— Jane Fonda

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

— John Sentamu