Far Quote by Stephanie Coontz

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and…

— Stephanie Coontz

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who…

— Stephanie Coontz

Societies are like single men; they spend too much time wanking and zero time making love.

— Steve Fowler

The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't…

— Scott Lively

Societies are like single men; they spend too much time pleasuring themselves and zero time making love.

— Steve Fowler

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

— John Galsworthy

Not many people appreciate or respects the value of getting married anymore. The Digital Era made sure of that.

— Mikel Musial

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

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

— Iain Duncan Smith

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

— Gene Robinson