Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
BBC Reith Lectures, 1967, in 'Listener' 30 November 1967
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.