
— Thomas Morus, buch Utopia
Utopia (1516). Übersetzung von Gerhard Ritter. Reclam, Stuttgart 1964 u.ö., ISBN 3-15-000513-2, S. 77.
engl.: "Wives serve their husbands, and children their parents, and always the younger serves the elder." - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Utopia/Chapter_5