Celibacy Quotes

• As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Course

• That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Church
  • Admonition
  • Almighty Creator

• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Law
  • Church
  • Dating

• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  

  George Washington
  • Action
  • Purpose
  • Rejected

• I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Help
  • Lead A Life

• On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Wish
  • Higher

• Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

  

  Sean O'Faolain
  • Cities
  • Rats
  • Qualified

• The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

  

  William P. Leahy
  • May
  • Church
  • Regard

• I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.

  

  Edwina Findley
  • Opportunity
  • Desire
  • Embrace

• To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Men
  • Children
  • Support

• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Accomplishment
  • Lifelong
  • Celibacy

• Confessions of married Catholic women is the best comfort to the confessors in their celibacy.

  

  Armand Salacrou
  • Comfort
  • Celibacy
  • Confessions

• The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.

  

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick
  • Men
  • Women
  • Reason

• There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.

  

  Betty Jane Wylie
  • Celibacy
  • Promiscuity