The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.