Bertrand Russell Quotes About Marriage

• 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

• 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

• A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Marriage, Party, Expected

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.84, Routledge

• 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

• Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

  Bertrand Russell

  Marriage, Instinct, Mankind

• 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

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