Family Quotes

Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.

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"The family is the first school of love, where we learn to see the divine in the ordinary."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to resemble them."
Russell, Bertrand
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"The family is the primordial experience of covenant."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The family is the first site of alterity, the first encounter with the other."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"In family, we learn the fundamental nature of human relation."
Buber, Martin
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"Family is the first institution that teaches us to betray ourselves."
Bataille, Georges
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"Family is where we first learn about society and morality."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"The family is the first institution that shapes human consciousness."
Lukács, György
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"Maternity is not biological but the epitome of ethical responsibility."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The child is my future, not my project."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
Russell, Bertrand
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"The family functions as an ideological apparatus that naturalizes social hierarchies from birth."
Althusser, Louis
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"The family is where ideology is first written on the body, before we even have words to resist it."
Althusser, Louis
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"The family is the first institution of repression."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The family is the first state that teaches us servitude as love."
Bataille, Georges
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"Family is the mechanism through which domination reproduces itself."
Horkheimer, Max
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"The family, school, and church work together as invisible hands shaping our deepest beliefs and desires."
Althusser, Louis
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"The family reproduces not only children but also the ideologies necessary for capitalist society."
Althusser, Louis
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"The family is perhaps the most intimate site where ideology is reproduced in each individual."
Althusser, Louis
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"The family reproduces the hierarchies of the larger society."
Horkheimer, Max
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"The family as ideology masks real relations of authority and subordination."
Adorno, Theodor
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"The family reproduces the authoritarian structures of society in miniature."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Family structures reproduce the hierarchies of larger society"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The family is a crucial institution for reproducing capitalist ideology."
Althusser, Louis
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"The family reproduces both patriarchal and capitalist ideology simultaneously."
Althusser, Louis
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"The family under capitalism bears the mark of property relations and male domination."
Lukács, György
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"A father's responsibility does not end at procreation."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The father is always symbolic."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The father's name is the law."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Desire is born in the mother-child separation."
Lacan, Jacques