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