Rocco Buttiglione Quotes

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

The family is the original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

I believe that the family unit has fundamentally been the most positive thing for society, and I don't believe that any minority has the right to create changes that impact on the majority.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

If the family is the basis of the society, and the basis of the family is the division of labor between husband and wife, and the upbringing of children is the most important function of the family, then such a society is indeed civilized ...

Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the family and society.

The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

There's nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It's sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.

If we want a great future in this world, we have to take God at his word, and God makes it really clear that society and civilization is held together by the glue of families... This is where the next generation of human beings are incubated and nurtured and matured - in homes. In families.

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.