Bertrand Russell Quotes about Marriage

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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage, Sex, Feminist

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.94, Routledge

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage, Prostitution, Harder

Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.150, Routledge

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Love, Happiness, Marriage

Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage, Views, Cake