Prostitution Quotes

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)
What is art? Prostitution. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. View quote
Molière
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises. View quote
Colin Mochrie
New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work. View quote
Carol Bellamy
I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off. View quote
Ray Romano
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! View quote
Angela Carter
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. View quote
Steven Pressfield
A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct. View quote
Karl Kraus
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself ... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role. (Thomas Szasz)
If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes. View quote
Thomas Szasz
A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. View quote
Emma Goldman
Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. View quote
Allan Bloom
Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution. View quote
Candace Bushnell
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically. View quote
Federica Montseny
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. View quote
Lord Hailsham
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that. View quote
Catherine Deneuve
[The Texas anti-sodomy statute] undoubtedly imposes constraints on liberty. So do laws prohibiting prostitution, recreational use of heroin, and, for that matter, working more than 60 hours per week in a bakery. But there is no right to 'liberty' under the Due Process Clause, though today's opinion repeatedly makes that claim. . . . The Fourteenth Amendment expressly allows States to deprive their citizens of 'liberty,' so long as 'due process of law' is provided. . . . View quote
Antonin Scalia
It is common opinion among us in regard to beauty and wisdom that there is an honourable and a shameful way of bestowing them. For to offer one's beauty for money to all comers is called prostitution; but we think it virtuous to become friendly with a lover who is known to be a man of honour. So is it with wisdom. Those who offer it to all comers for money are known as sophists, prostitutors of wisdom. (Xenophon)
The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it's true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution. View quote
Ai Weiwei
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings; an empire that supports reaction and counter-revolution all over the world; that protects and promotes the exploitation by monopolies of the wealth and the human resources of whole continents, unequal exchange, a protectionist policy, an incredible waste of natural resources, and a system of hunger for the world? View quote
Fidel Castro
Because it has Societies for the prevention of physical cruelty to animals, and none with the object of preventing the moral cruelty practiced on human beings. Because it encourages, legally and tacitly, vice under every form, from the sale of whiskey down to forced prostitution and theft brought on by starvation wages... View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble. View quote
Joseph Heller