This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
Age | Enough | Family | Father | Isolation | Mother | Nature | People | Security | World |
Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it.
Belief | Business | Family | Government | People | Government | Business |
Simply put, philosophical counselling consists of a trained philosopher helping an individual deal with a problem or an issue that is of concern to that individual. Philosophical counselors know that the majority of people are quite capable of resolving most of their problems on a day-to-day basis either by themselves or with the help of significant others. It is when problems become too complex -- as, for example, when values seem to conflict, when facts appear contradictory, when reasoning about a problem becomes trapped within a circle, or when life seems unexpectedly meaningless -- that a trained philosopher can be of greater help than the average friend or family member.
Family | Friend | Individual | Life | Life | Majority | People | Problems |
Pitirim A. Sorokin, fully Pitirim Alexandrovich (Alexander) Sorokin
The boundary between true and false, and beautiful and ugly, will erode. Conscience will disappear in favor of special interest groups. Force and fraud will become the norm; might will become right, and brutality rampant. It will be a bellum omnium contra omnes, and the family will disintegrate as well. “The home will become a mere overnight parking place.”
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
As the fundamental nucleus of society, the family has a right to the full support of the State in order to carry out fully its particular mission.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters — members all of the same family — are able at last to live in peace.
Family | Language | Love | Men | Peace | People | Respect | Respect |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
A family policy must be the basis and driving force of all social policies.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Comfort | Danger | Family | People | Society | Society | Danger |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
And although the State can do much by providing means and structures of support, the contribution of the family to ensuring that climate of security and trust cannot be replaced, so important is it in helping young children to look to the future with serenity, and in preparing them to take a responsible part in building a society of true progress when they grow up.
Children | Family | Future | Important | Means | Progress | Security | Society | Trust | Society |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace.
Angela Merkel, fully Angela Dorothea Merkel, née Kasner
Our birth rate is now half that in 1965... When I am chancellor, family values will be enshrined in our taxation system.
Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli NULL
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
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Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini NULL
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.
Blame | Care | Consideration | Danger | Experience | Family | Government | Husband | Law | Little | People | Power | Problems | Public | Regard | Responsibility | Will | Government | Danger |
Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli NULL
God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.