Quotes About Family Institution

#1. As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Joseph P. Bradley

#2. There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

David Bowie

#3. Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Kate Middleton

#4. We do not raise our children alone ... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

Richard Louv

#5. Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#6. The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Christopher Lasch

#7. The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.

Marvin J. Ashton

#8. If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

James Dobson

#9. Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution."
"Marriage is an institution," he said.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

Vincent Nichols

#11. The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

Tim Huelskamp

#12. The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

Marco Rubio

#13. We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Marco Rubio

#14. If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

#15. If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

Nicolle Wallace

#16. Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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

Paul Johnson

#18. Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

John Boehner

#19. He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family
the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

August Strindberg

#20. The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

Marco Rubio

#22. I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.

David Cameron

#23. While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Jane Jacobs

#24. But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

Bernice Weissbourd

#25. The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution.

James C. Dobson

#26. I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Oz

#27. The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

Asne Seierstad

#28. In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.

Lillian B. Rubin

#29. Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

Rachel Bilson

#30. This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his Creator.

Elizabeth Foss

#31. I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#32. The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

John Gresham Machen

#33. Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

Shere Hite

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

Ashley Montagu

#35. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Lee Iacocca

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

August Strindberg