Having sex Quote by Jennifer Wright

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid…

— D. H. Lawrence

“He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one's environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to order and…

— Rebecca West

“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of marriages was…

— Eileen Power

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

— Robert Payne

Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes…

— Norman Mailer

“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art…

— Edward Gibbon

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one…

— Jennifer Stone

“Newer religions, among them Christianity, saw the world as a battlefield between good and evil. In such a world, sex itself became dichotomized and…

— Byrne R.S. Fone

Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

— Deepak Chopra

I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.

— Angelina Jolie

“We have no quarrel with the Freudians, but we do not put the same stress on sexual matters as they do. Sex is very…

— Robertson Davies

Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other…

— George Carlin