You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.
