Polygamy Quotes - Page 5

• This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Spiritual, Wife, Taught

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• The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

  Charles W. Penrose

  Enemy, Church, Divine

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• The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

  B. H. Roberts

  Manifestos, Cowardly, Proceeding

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• The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

  Andrew Solomon

  Campaigns, Sentiments, Organized

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of words, shouldn't bar them from anything. But, no one's saying that polygamy should be institutionalized in this country. That Muslim's uniquely should be allowed to have two or three or four marriages.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Country, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Wife, Virtuous Woman, Found

  Lyndon W. Cook, William Law (1994). “William Law”, Grandin Book Co

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• The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded that he should take plural wives, to add to his glory... Joseph asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.

  William Law

  Husband, Giving, Wife

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• I don't think our system, where we have one romantic partner, where we get married and we're only supposed to have sex with one person - that doesn't make a lot of sense. Not that polygamy makes any more sense. I've found a system that seems to work for me, and it doesn't require monogamous commitment from anyone.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Commitment, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Daughter, Liars, Men

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• Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

  John Taylor

  Men, People, Principles

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• My wives will be mine in eternity.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Wife, Eternity, Mines

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or third wife. Now it's a very common story. Sometimes two wives living with a man in a 5 by 10 foot room. It's a very miserable economic situation.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Men, Wife, Common

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

  Dennis Prager

  Sex, Children, Years

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.24, Creators Publishing

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• If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Church, Feels, Stills

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused - After all, we have monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, celibacy, and so on. In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Confused, Divorce, Unique

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, United States, Divine Revelation

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.51, Routledge

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• Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know whether his wife is wrong, or whether Josephs testimony and others are wrong and do lie and he deceived for 12 years or not; his is all but crazy about matters... we will not let Br. Orson go away from us he is too good a man to have a woman destroy him.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Crazy, Lying, Men

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• God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things pertaining to this matter, and they would like us to tone that principle down and change it and make it applicable to the views of the day. This we cannot do; nor can we interfere with any of the commands of God to meet the persuasions or behests of men. I cannot do it, and will not do it.

  John Taylor

  Men, Views, Principles

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• Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'

  Dennis McKinsey

  Biblical, Men, Two

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• Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.

  Abraham H. Cannon

  Brother, Views, Snow

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Marriage, Sex

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'

  Abraham H. Cannon

  Law, Government, Wife

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• Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members' own bosoms any more than necessary) -- such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time -- the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Names, Red Flags, Wife

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• Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He's got these anger issues that you can't believe. He's like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He's pro-slavery, he's pro-polygamy, he's homophobic, he'll kill you for masturbating.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Believe, Insecure

  Source: movieweb.com

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• All commandments that I give must be obeyed unless they are revoked by me or by my authority and how can I revoke an everlasting covenant for I the Lord am everlasting and my everlasting covenants cannot be abrogated nor done away with but stand forever.

  John Taylor

  Giving, Forever, Done

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