Authoritarian Family Quotes

#1. The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#2. I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

Hugh Shelton

#3. The first step is the hardest in every
journey of dreams. There is nothing
else to fear unto whosoever has shown
the tenacity to begin; because, once
having started, the hardest part of the
mission is the one lying behind.

Moffat Machingura

#4. Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

#5. Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Susan Sontag

#6. Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.

Wilhelm Reich

#7. Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.

Larry David

#8. In Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.

Michael Ondaatje

#9. I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

Craig Ferguson

#10. I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Lupe Ontiveros