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Chastity does
not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something
flaming, like Joan of Arc.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
Chastity is
the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is
no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain
the Science of Life.
-- Mary Baker Eddy
1821-1910, American Founder
of the Christian Science Church
It is fatally
easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a
value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value
for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to
re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse
restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high
value on chastity ''backward.''
-- Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist
Writer
A woman's
chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist,
Short Story Writer
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There are no
chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
-- Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author,
Philosopher
There are few
virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer
Much of the
modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that
they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous
estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in
which they find themselves without their consent and from
which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
-- C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic,
Writer, Christian Apologist
'Tis chastity,
my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete
steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace
huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy
perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity,
no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil
her virgin purity.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
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