“Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.” PeopleSocialLibertyMarriageJudgingDefinitionsOfficialsEngineeringHostileBureaucratsCongressmanSocial Engineering Author:Ron Paul
“I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.” PeopleMenNeedsFeelsShouldBelieveDifferentI BelieveSocialMarriageRespectInstitutionsOne ManTolerateOrientationOne Woman Author:Mitt Romney
“In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.” ChildrenJobsSocialMarriageCareersInterviews Author:Jessica Savitch
“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?” PeopleIfsWayWholeLeftSocialMarriageBrokenBlessingArgumentPrisonChainsPrisonerFabricLocksVowConstancyMan And Superman Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.” ProblemAmericaSocialMarriageDespairOptimismDareNo ProblemBirthrightSocial Problems Author:Maggie Gallagher
“When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.” MenNeedsStatesProblemGovernmentSchoolFormSocialResultsMarriagePovertyFailingCrimeTerribleDrugMen And WomenProgramAbuseDollarsDrivenPregnancyStableExpansionFederal GovernmentPhysical HealthDrug AbuseHealth ProblemsFragmentationSocial ProgramsTeen Pregnancy Author:Maggie Gallagher
“Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.” WorldSocialMarriageInstitutionsStructureCoreStabilityPermanenceSocial Structure Author:David Vitter
“God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.” MindGodGovernmentSocialBornMarriageCreatingOrganizationCreatorSacrednessInspirational MarriageConceivingChristian MarriageSocial Organization Author:Max Lucado
“To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.” PeopleNeedsStatesIndividualSocialLove IsBehindsMarriageAwarenessSecurityDangerousReadyOfficePoliceInstitutionsMadCourtStormIntimatePhenomenonSubstitutesInsecure Author:Rajneesh
“The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.” SocialLove IsMarriageTroubleFriendsMarriedLustWanderCompanionGetting MarriedMazesSocial Status Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
“Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.” EndsProblemPassionSocialExistenceMarriageDangerRaisesMidstStrifePersistentExclusive Author:Denis de Rougemont
“A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.” IfsSocialMarriageWifePositionHusbandPrivilegeForbiddenMonk Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda