Prostitution Quotes - Page 4

• Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Art, Husband

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• The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'

  Paul Baran

  Believe, Men, Skills

  "The Commercial Tidal Wave" by Robert W. McChesney & John Bellamy Foster in "Monthly Review", March 2003.

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• The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

  Virginie Despentes

  Lines, Seduction, Knows

  Virginie Despentes (2010). “King Kong Theory”, p.59, Profile Books

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• I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Fun, People

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• Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Males, Female

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

  Peter McWilliams

  Gambling, Drug, Would Be

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sex, Athlete, Qualms About

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  "Does Kagan Oppose Mother’s Day?" by Stephanie Mencimer, www.motherjones.com. May 11, 2010.

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• The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Feet, Baghdad, United Nations

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• It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

  Gail Sheehy

  Silly, America, Doe

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Men, Reason, Should

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.12

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• Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

  Peter Coyote

  Kind, Currents, Civics

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• The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

  Albert C. Barnes

  Art, Museums, Philadelphia

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• The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

  Gail Sheehy

  Long, Criminals, Lines

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Heart, Games, Trying

  Interview with Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. June 13, 2005.

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• What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love Is, Men, Giving

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Black, Neighbors And Friends, Innocence

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.81, Picador

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• Here is my personal opinion about prostitution. If men knew how to do it, they wouldn't have to pay for it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Men, Personal Opinions, Pay

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• In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the most tenacious instinct for self-preservation, should be considered stronger and saner than her frailer and no longer living sisters. One couldn't have it both ways, he'd pointed out: if women are seduced and abandoned they're supposed to go mad, but if they survive, and seduce in their turn, then they were mad to begin with.

  Margaret Atwood

  Self, Bridges, Mad

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Heart, Men

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• As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Real, Ninety Nine

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• People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Sex, People, Wife

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