"The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy"

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society"

"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest"

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile"

"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process"

"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions"

"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression"

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world"