Marriage Decline Quotes

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it.

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many do not want to even think about it... Many people believe the change that has taken place in recent decades was set in motion by the emancipation of women. But this argument is not valid, it is an insult, a form of misogyny.

The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping birth rate.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.