[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a…

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

— Evan Esar

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of…

— Charles Handy

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

— Anonymous

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

— George Ayittey

“The instant the old folks had entered their codes and the Harmony program had begun to sing, suicide disappeared from human society. Nearly all…

— Project Itoh

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be…

— Arthur Compton

“The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed…

— Carl Gustav Jung

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or…

— Clark Gregg

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

— John Elkington

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are…

— Maureen Johnson

What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and…

— Atul Gawande

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

— Rob Lowe