(83 quotes found)
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
Moliere
“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.”
Camille Paglia
“I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.”
Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh
“The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.”
Bertrand Russell
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.”
Karl Kraus
“All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.”
Larry Holmes
“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence”
“Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.”
“All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest”
Alfred Adler
“That place is my baby and I would prostitute myself for it”
Walt Disney