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I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

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

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

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

— Ellen Key

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

— Jack Kingston

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

— Carla Bruni

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

— Ted Olson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

— Lafcadio Hearn

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

— Keith O'Brien

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

— Theodore Zeldin