Marriage Institution Quotes

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it, — Mike Huckabee

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. — Honore De Balzac

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make. — Isla Fisher

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up. — Les Dawson

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it. — Gene Simmons

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. — Tony Campolo

Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity. — Elena Ferrante

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition. — Dorothy Richardson

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. — Marisa Tomei

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. — Iain Duncan Smith

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have. — Theresa May

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. — Joan Fontaine

Marriage is not an institution. It's a relationship. — William Paul Young

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman. — Phyllis Schlafly

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. — Susan Sontag

Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed. — Paul Singer

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea. — Lara Flynn Boyle

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

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. — Doug Stanhope

It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony. — Azar Nafisi

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage. — Karen DeCrow

Marriage is a wonderful institution ... but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth. — James Dobson

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist. — James Dobson

Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. — August Strindberg

It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage. — Jens Spahn

If love were a requirement for marriage, the human race would have no need for the institution. — J.R. Ward

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. — John Boehner

Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution? — Rajneesh

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. — James McGreevey

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier. — Dale Peck

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded. — Swami Vivekananda

The institution of marriage is obsolete — Jane Fonda

I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage. — Sonam Kapoor

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Ben Carson

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. — Kyle Chandler

Marriage is a great institution. — Elizabeth Taylor

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. — Lauren Bacall

God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure. — Sunday Adelaja

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ... — Harriet Martineau

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

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families. — Tim Huelskamp

The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting. — Jenna McCarthy

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30? — Rachel Bilson

The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh? — Christina Engela

We loved each other and sometimes we loved other people, but we had no respect for the institution of marriage. — Alice Becker-Ho

And if you determine to run your marriage your way, you're in for a lot of trouble, because marriage is God's institution. — Timothy Keller

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

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family. — Tim Huelskamp

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution. — Rush Limbaugh

It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage. — Elizabeth Gilbert

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it. — Shahid Kapoor

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal. — Jessica Valenti