Quote of the day
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Gerald Cohen

Born: April 14, 1941
Died: August 5, 2009 (aged 68)
Bio: Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford.