Edmund Leach Quote

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

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.

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.

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.

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.