Have there been many men in history who have never married and still retained social respect?

Question

Have there been many men in history who have never married and still retained social respect?

Answer 1

jesus

Answer 2

james Buchanaan...15th President

Answer 3

can't honestly say either way but I'd say that if they never married that shouldn't make them a bad person do you?

Answer 4

I'm sure there have been plenty. I think its a more recent thing where people start feeling weary around a man over 35 who has never been married. He's either pegged self-involved, serial killer or child molester. Of course I don't think that an unmarried man is any of those things but people are bound to wonder why someone is single after all those years especially if they haven't had any serious long term relationships (10+ years).

There is a bias because I wouldn't mind an unmarried woman of 38 years babysit my kids but I sure as h**l wouldn't let a unmarried man of 38 watch my kids. It may not be right but it is what it is.

Answer 5

I dont know what is in history, but it wud be weird if a man has not married by 35. It means he does not know what it is like to be in a relationship. Or is he not desirable or approachable? I wud think something is seriously wrong with him.  

Answer 6

umm the pope,Jesus the apostles

Answer 7

Tons and tons...Beethoven, da vinci even Pascal was never married. They are respected and most definitely have social respect, they are some of histories greats.  here is a bunch more..

Pierre Bayle ; Robert Boyle; Johannes Brahms; Samuel Butler; Robert Burton; Ludwig van Beethoven; Johannes Brahms; Giacomo Casanova; Frederic Chopin; Nicolaus; Copernicus; Eugène Delacroix; Rene Descartes; Gustave Flaubert; Galileo Galilei; Edward Gibbon; Vincent van Gogh; Oliver Goldsmith; Thomas Hobbes; Horace; David Hume; Washington Irving; Henry James; Franz Kafka; Immanuel Kant; Soren Kierkegaard; Charles Lamb; T. E. Lawrence; Meriwether Lewis; Philip Larkin; Gottfried Leibniz; John Locke; Michelangelo; Friedrich Nietzsche; Sir Isaac Newton ; Blaise Pascal; Alexander Pope; Marcel Proust; Maurice Ravel; George Santayana; Jean Paul Sartre; Franz Schubert; Benedict de Spinoza; Arthur Schopenhauer; Herbert Spencer; Adam Smith; Stendhal; Jonathon Swift; Nikola Tesla; Henry David Thoreau; Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec; Leonardo da Vinci; Voltaire; Ludwig Wittgenstein

Answer 8

Yes, plenty.  Social respect has nothing to do with it.  If a man is smart enough to stay away from the vicious trappings of women, he should not be labeled.   Been there!  what a huge mistake.  Now, rich, single, and enjoying it.