Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
Interpretation
Marriage can sometimes feel like a constraint disguised as a social norm.
In this quote, Albert Einstein presents a critical perspective on marriage, suggesting that what is often regarded as a noble institution can also be seen as a form of bondage, where societal expectations and norms restrict individual freedom. He emphasizes the contrast between the social perception of marriage as a civilized arrangement and the underlying constraints it may impose, prompting us to question the true nature of the bonds we form in romantic partnerships.
In practice
During a discussion on the subject of modern marriage practices.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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