Rajneesh Quotes

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

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

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

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

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

There is an absolute necessity of marriage for the service of the state, and the solid advantages that arise from it.

Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

I grew up with an Italian family in an era when a woman's path was laid out for her: You got married and had children. Simple, right? Then I got to a point around the age of 30 when I had three little children and was a single mom, and I realized life was not so simple.

I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.