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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

French playwright and actor (1622-1673)

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Frederica Montseny

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Emma Goldman

Russian anarchist

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm – as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

Camille Paglia

American feminist academic and critic

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!

Harry Pollitt

British communist

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Peter Coyote

American actor, voice actor, and director

What is art? Prostitution.

Charles Baudelaire

French poet and critic (1821-1867)

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Angela Carter

English novelist

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Emma Goldman

Russian anarchist

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