Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannie...s the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as c...lose and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm,... the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to ...remember the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and ...once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth b...ones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In child rearing it would unquestionably be easier if a child were to do something because we say so. The authoritarian method doe...s expedite things, but it does not produce independent functioning. If a child has not mastered the underlying principles of human interactions and merely conforms out of coercion or conditioning, he has no tools to use, no resources to apply in the next situation that confronts him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Authoritarian methods do not produce independence: they reinforce dependence. Independent functioning is not simply the ability to... do something, but also the ability to decide what to do. It is not only the ability to take care of oneself. It is also the ability to take responsibility for oneself. Autonomy and independence do not grow out of being told what to do and when to do it. It is only by having his needs considered, by becoming a participant in the decision-making process, that a child develops the capacity for autonomy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us fr...om one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refra...in, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »