Family Quotes

"The family reproduces class relations and gender hierarchies, even as it appears to be natural and universal."

"The family reproduces in miniature the domination of the larger society."

"Family is the first machine of stratification."

"The family remains central to personality formation and moral development."

"We inherit what we did not choose."

"The father is always dead."

"The father is always symbolic, never actual."

"The father's function is to limit desire."

"We inherit what we do not choose and cannot fully own."

"We inherit more than we can possibly acknowledge."

"The paternal metaphor establishes meaning."

"The mother must become the object of loss."

"We inherit what we did not choose, yet must make it our own."

"We inherit our understanding of the good from those who came before us."

"The family is the primary school of moral education."

"The family is the matrix within which human virtue develops."

"Family bonds are given as facticity, but how we relate to them remains our choice."

"Family inheritance includes not just genes but patterns of thinking we must consciously examine and transcend."

"Family is the first school of society."

"Family bonds are natural but require conscious cultivation."

"We become ourselves by learning the stories and traditions that constitute our communities."

"The family is not part of the basic structure and thus not directly subject to principles of justice."

"Family is where we first learn to be ourselves."

"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children."

"Family is the foundation of all social order."

"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the family."

"The family is the primary school of human feeling and moral development."

"Family relationships are the first school of understanding how to live with difference and complexity."

"The bonds of kinship are sacred."

"The foundation of society is the family."