And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.
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.
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been—no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among i...
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Better to be a free dog than a caged lion.
Better to be a free bird than a captive king.
They are not free who drag their chains behind them.
Better a free bird than a king in captivity.
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
A free world is also a world of fracture
You are either free or not free
Quick, someone's coming! Look real!
You're free to be free, just break the shackles and run loose.
