Quotes About Society

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

The family is the American fascism.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.