Top 196 Prostitution Quotes & Sayings

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

What is art? Prostitution.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.' That seems to me a simple moral equation and one you don't have to spend 60 hours of television examining. And I think the same thing is true with how we approached pornography or prostitution. Prostitution's been around since the Bible, and pornography's been around since about 15 minutes after the French guy invented the first camera.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

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

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

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

I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.

The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I realized, with a boy doing prostitution, of course it has to deal with homosexuality. And I had a feeling it was too much for the film, you know, sexuality, prostitution, adolescence ... there were too many films for one film.

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.

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.

...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped.

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.

Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

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

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

Places where prostitution is legal, you find much better health care, fewer cases of disease and illegal abortions. There's really nothing to be gained by keeping prostitution illegal.

What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

If you go into it, it is marriage that has created prostitution. And prostitution will never disappear from the world unless marriage disappears; it is the shadow of marriage. In fact prostitutes have been saving marriage. It is a safety measure so the man can go once in a while, just for a change, to any other woman, a prostitute, and save his marriage and its permanency.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

Monogamy and prostitution go together.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

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

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

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

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.