Social Unit Quotes

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their groups, but let us not think that they as individuals have any viability apart from their group.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?

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

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

I write about families. That is who we are.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

The family is the most important unit of society…. When all is said and done, there is nothing more important than the family.

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

The family is the corner stone of our society.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Young women, the family unit is forever, and you should do everything in your power to strengthen that unit.

The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It's so powerful.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government