A Quote by Ruth Nanda Anshen

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

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Body Cell Even Family Organic Society Unit

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Ruth Nanda Anshen
American - Philosopher
June 14, 1900 - December 2, 2003

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

M. Russell Ballard

Young women, the family unit is forever, and you should do everything in your power to strengthen that unit.

Ezra Taft Benson

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles Eastman

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

Miguel Nicolelis

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

George Bernard Shaw

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness.

Spencer W. Kimball

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Arthur Compton

Chinese society is organised around the family unit.

Guo Guangchang

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Kara Swisher

I like that I can write my name in Persian, and it's a small unit, like a graphical unit. I feel the same way about my name in English, it's a graphical unit.