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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

— Alain de Botton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Susan Faludi

Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

— Talulah Riley

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

— Lisa Murkowski

I believe in traditional marriage.

— Karl Rove

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

— Rick Santorum

In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.

— Jardine Libaire

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

— Dennis Prager

✗Opposing Perspectives

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

— Steve Chabot

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

— Theodore Zeldin

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

— Ellen Key