Celibacy Quote by Peter De Vries Download Open image “Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.” — Peter De Vries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Celibacy Worst
“Celibacy is a terrible idea, adhered to by people who hate themselves and want everyone else to do the same. You should do what… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Honestly, celibacy isn't hard. It's the gasers that sell you broken promises and try to get you off of God's plan offering nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is very difficult. Mother-in-law comes, mother of the mother-in-law comes, sister of mother-in-law comes, aunt of mother-in-law comes. How many mother-in-laws… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) is where not even an iota of a wrong intent arises within.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'm not an advocate of promiscuity; but then I'm also not an advocate of being virginal. It's not like I put virginity or celibacy… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
