“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.” MenHumansChildrenReasonRealityLawSpiritPoorMoralWifeSubjectsMaterialsShapesConcernPressureMiseryErasAutonomyCunningWorkshopsSupplementsIntroverted Author:Max Horkheimer
“It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.” RealHardKidsWantedWifeConcernMy WifeMy Wife And KidsLove My Wife Author:Phil Robertson
“Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.” WantNeedsSoulWifeFailingHusbandConcernWants And Needs Book:Moments With You: Daily Connections for Couples Source: Moments With You: Daily Connections for Couples
“[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.” MenChildrenMotherAcceptingWifeConcernNotesVicesFollowingChinaFemininePenaltiesInfidelitySectionsAdultery Author:Nora Waln
“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.” WorldNeedsMeanChildrenLittlesDoePhilosophyCultureMoralWifeDangerousSourceHealthyConcernGenderWelfareGuidanceTensionGender EqualityDegradeHealthy FamilySlappers Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.” MenFirstsMayLongGovernmentWifeOughtCitizensTasteConscienceConcernAffectionNeighborSuitsInterfere Author:Lydia M. Child
“If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.” IfsMenWellsLittlesWifeLandComfortHusbandConcernDivorceEvery ManChiefsWell BeingPrime Author:Gordon B. Hinckley