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Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

— David Vitter

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

— Mitt Romney

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

— John Sentamu

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

— Zak Orth

Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.

— Vincent McNabb

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

— Julie Christie

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

— Dada Vaswani

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

— Les Dawson

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

— Jeremy Taylor

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

— Iyanla Vanzant

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

— Keith O'Brien