Robert Bly Quotes About Siblings

Quotes about: Siblings

• In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, Adults, Lost

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• I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, Thinking, People

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• I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

  Robert Bly

  Mother, Father, Sibling

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• The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, Democratic, Democratic Society

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• All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, School, Thinking

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• If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, Whales, Years

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• Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

  Robert Bly

  War, Sibling, Care

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