Age Quote by Hilaire Belloc

Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The…

— Hilaire Belloc

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed,…

— George Orwell

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

— Thomas Paine

“The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over the woman,…

— Frederick Engels

Having a small house and a close family was part of a philosophy that happened to work out with not having a lot of…

— Maggie Baird

“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical society. In…

— George Orwell

“The ‘family’, in the sense in which the term is used today, emerged only after a long process of historical development. The many figures…

— Carole Pateman

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on…

— Jeremiah Denton

“Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors…

— Stephanie Coontz

Family is a transitive property.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth or political…

— James Essinger