--- title: "9 Family State Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 9 Family State quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Family State sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/553/confucius-164_ambition_from-the-loving-example-of-one-family-a_411553.jpg" --- > [From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/confucius/from-the-loving-example-of-one-family-a-whole-state-may-become-loving/) [Confucius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/confucius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/553/confucius-164_ambition_from-the-loving-example-of-one-family-a_411553.jpg) > [... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-school-should-be-an-appendage-of-the-family-state-and-modeled-on/) [Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b4/catharine-beecher-18798_and-love_the-school-should-be-an-appendage-of-the_2428324.jpg) > [And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/and-it-is-characteristic-of-man-that-he-alone-has-any-sense-of-good/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/097/aristotle-78_association_and-it-is-characteristic-of-man-that-he_276131.png) > [ “The family state then, is the aptest earthly illustration of the heavenly kingdom...\[The mother\] is to rear all under her care to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beecher-catharine-e-catharine-esther/the-family-state-then-is-the-aptest-earthly-illustration-of-the/) [Beecher, Catharine E. (Catharine Esther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beecher-catharine-e-catharine-esther/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1d/beecher-catharine-e-catharine_earthly_the-family-state-then-is-the-aptest-eart_2279451.jpg) > [ “\[Marianne Moore\] once remarked, after a visit to her brother and his family, that the state of being married and having children… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/marianne-moore-once-remarked-after-a-visit-to-her-brother-and-his/) [Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/elizabeth-bishop-9054_doing-right_marianne-moore-once-remarked-after-a-vis_1806207.jpg) > [Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/inasmuch-as-every-family-is-a-part-of-a-state-and-these-relationships/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/aristotle-78_character_inasmuch-as-every-family-is-a-part-of-a_879556.jpg) > [The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-error-of-socrates-must-be-attributed-to-the-false-notion-of-unity/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a2/aristotle-78_communism_the-error-of-socrates-must-be-attributed_719016.jpg) > [The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniting-by-co-operating-influences/) [Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/379/catharine-beecher-18798_accumulation_the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniti_565755.jpg) > [“The only institution in the Sicilian conscience that really counts is the family; counts, that is to say, more as a dramatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-sciascia/the-only-institution-in-the-sicilian-conscience-that-really-counts-is/) [Leonardo Sciascia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-sciascia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/leonardo-sciascia-25896_family_the-only-institution-in-the-sicilian-con_945054.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/family-state/#itemlist", "name": "Family State Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. 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Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Catharine Beecher" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniting-by-co-operating-influences/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/379/catharine-beecher-18798_accumulation_the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniti_565755.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/379/catharine-beecher-18798_accumulation_the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniti_565755.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/379/catharine-beecher-18798_accumulation_the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniti_565755.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring…” — Catharine Beecher", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The only institution in the Sicilian conscience that really counts is the family; counts, that is to say, more as a dramatic juridical contract or bond than as a natural association based on affection. The family is the Sicilians’ State. The State, as it is for us, is extraneous to them, merely a de facto entity based on force; an entity imposing taxes, military service, war, police. Within the family institution the Sicilian can cross the frontier of his own natural tragic solitude and fit into a communal life where relationships are governed by hair-splitting contractual ties. To ask him to cross the frontier between family and State would be too much. 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