{"quotes":[{"text":"Love is cursed by monogamy.","author":"Kanye West","tags":["lgbt","love","poly","polygamy"],"id":21997,"author_id":"Kanye+West"},{"text":"Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["dating","general-semantics","language","marriage","meaning","monogamy","polygamist","polygamy","relationships","semantics"],"id":29609,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty. Heresy should be trodden out beneath the bigot's brutal feet. Husbands should divorce their wives at will, and make the mothers of their children houseless and weeping wanderers. Polygamy ought to be practiced; women should become slaves; we should buy the sons and daughters of the heathen and make them bondmen and bondwomen forever. We should sell our own flesh and blood, and have the right to kill our slaves. Men and women should be stoned to death for laboring on the seventh day. 'Mediums,' such as have familiar spirits, should be burned with fire. Every vestige of mental liberty should be destroyed, and reason's holy torch extinguished in the martyr's blood.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","bigot","brutal","burning","christianity","civilization","crime","death-penalty","divorce","forever","heathen","heresy","holy","husbands","inspired","judaism","kill","liberty","martyr","mental","mistake","mothers","murder","pentateuch","politics","polygamy","sabbath","sell","slaves","spirits","stoning","the-bible","torth","wander","weeping"],"id":64294,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.","author":"David Rovics","tags":["agape","believe","betrayal","break-up","broken","cheat","cheater","cheating","closet","commitment","communication","consent","control","cry","depressed","desire","dirty","divorce","divorced","dream","empowering","end","ended","eros","family","fear","feelings","feminism","forever","freedom","friends","friendship","gone","happiness","heartbreak","heartbroken","hearts","honesty","horny","human","humanity","hurt","infidelity","jealousy","jerk","keep","keeper","keepers","live","lost","lovers","monogamy","nasty","need","nonmonogamy","pain","partners","peace","plural","polyamory","polyandry","polycule","polygamy","polygyny","possessive","quad","queer","real","relationship","respect","romantic","sad","share","sharing","slut","sluts","sorrow","spice","spouse","stay","suffering","sweet","sweethearts","swinging","team","threesome","time","triad","trouble","truth","undercover","unfaithful","unicorn","unity","valentine","valentines","value","wisdom","wishes","yolo"],"id":89986,"author_id":"David+Rovics"},{"text":"I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive.' Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered 'a crime, not a religion.","author":"Jon Krakauer","tags":["crime","polygamy","rape","religion"],"id":108607,"author_id":"Jon+Krakauer"},{"text":"Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["dating","greed","ideal-lover","infidelity","love","monogamy","mr-right","perfection","polygamy","relationships"],"id":113175,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["dating","love","monogamy","polygamy","relationships"],"id":125329,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem'.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["polygamy","variability","wife","women"],"id":152825,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Oh,” she breathed. “How silly I’ve been.”“How silly we’ve all been,” said another of the wives. “We shouldn’t be fighting each other. Our problems don’t lie in any of the relationships we have with each other.”“The problem is our entire social system,” chimed in another.","author":"Colleen Chen","tags":["attitude","change","competition","cooperation","love","polygamy","relationships","social-system","wives"],"id":161000,"author_id":"Colleen+Chen"},{"text":"Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia.”“Oh, no, Nim,” Vesper said. “You can’t fall for one of the wives! She’s married. And to the king, no less. That’s illegal. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but you’ll still probably be arrested if anyone finds out—or worse.”“I knew you’d say that,” Nim said, turning away. “You’re such a prude, Vesper. Love is above things like rules. And the king has so many wives and mistresses—he doesn’t even remember all of them.","author":"Colleen Chen","tags":["culture","love","marriage","polygamy","prude","rules","society","wives"],"id":166860,"author_id":"Colleen+Chen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}