Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.