Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.
I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy...
Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.
The environment is better and better for Democrats.
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
Noise is democratic; silence, aritocratic
Government stimulates the democrat party.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
The Big Book’s chapter We Agnostics draws a line in the sand: God either is or He isn’t. What was our choice to be (Alcoholics Anonymous, 53)? Nature abhors a vacuum and a state of nothing can’t exist in either the material or spiritual world. ...
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.
