A Couple Quotes

“A common goal of the contemporary women’s movement and modern socialism has been to replace the bonds of marriage and kin with a universal dependence on the welfare state. Feminist analyst, Carol Pateman, argues that women’s growing dependence on the state is a logical corollary to feminists goals, and a stimulus to state entitlements as a substitute for family-centered care.” ~Allan Carlson in Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage.



“Both the good and bad civilizations cover us as with a canopy, and protect us from all that is outside. But a good civilization spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.” G.K. Chesterton