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.
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.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Loss makes the soul sick
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Top question of the dying: "What made me sick?
She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.
If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
I'm always so sick of myself after a show.
Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
