Voltaire Quotes

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Lock up the fornicators!

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

Men who refrain from sexual acts are frequently stronger, owing to their conservation of energy.

By your actions in Campaign 2016, you have harmed all of our witness. You have made it more difficult to save the lost and more difficult to protect the rights of faithful believers. You have dragged down the reputation of penitent heroes of the Bible to justify the sins of Donald Trump. You have dismissed claims of sexual assault against Donald Trump. You have subverted and perverted the Word to justify and excuse the behavior of a man who finds it acceptable to degrade others and revel in sexual sin.

That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.

My main goal is to wait until I'm married to have sex. I would never, personally, be able to (have an abortion), because down the road it would always haunt me.

It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.