We face the challenge of finding how to relate to our neighbors and contribute to the common good when we see that very society undermining human flourishing in the name of sexual liberty. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Even though an individual's capacity to transcend his society is partly a gift from that very society, he often fails to acknowledge this indebtedness and acts as if he had somehow outgrown his dependence on that society. (religion-online.org)
Like the Venice Biennale, or the Whitney Museum's biannual display of contemporary art in New York, or the Brooklyn Museum's notorious show Sensation, the Paris version displayed works whose only purpose was to offend the very society whose support the artist was seeking. (firstthings.com)