Celibacy/secular

Famous quotes containing the words celibacy and/or secular:

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)