Stephen L. Carter Quote

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.


Integrity (ed. Basic Books, 1996)


If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die,...

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die,...

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die,...

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die,...