Mitt Romney Quotes

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just moving away from the state that they are comfortable with or used to. It's understandable why someone would feel that way.

In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real enduring change, it takes both a movement on the ground and an independent political party that is itself the defiance of that two-party corporate big-money control of politics.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.