"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation."
Margaret Mead
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
Jane Howard
"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born."
Pearl S. Buck
"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
Confucius
"no matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back."
Margaret Mead
"Family isn’t [just] about whose blood you have. It’s about who you care about."
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike’s Wee Wee, 1998
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People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so sure that they are about to be conned by their neighbor, or by their mother, or by their sister, or their grandmother. What’s the use of having fifty percent of the world’s wealth, or whatever it is that you have, if you’re going to live this pathetic, terrified life?
La gente está tan aislados, y tan solos, y tan sospechosas, y tan competetivas con otros, y tan seguro están a punto de ser estafado por su vecino o por su madre o por su hermana, o por su abuela. Cuál es el uso es de tener el cincuento por ciento de la riqueza del mundo o lo que sea que usted tiene, si va a vivir este pátetica y aterrorizada vida?
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