Community Quote by Carroll Quigley

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics...…

— Emile Durkheim

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends…

— John Dewey

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody…

— Erich Fromm

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally…

— Milton Sapirstein

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

— Margaret Thatcher

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

— Jacqueline Bisset

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together…

— Ayn Rand

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

— Karl Marx

“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.”

— Arnold Toynbee

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are…

— Ramana Maharshi

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

— Ruth Benedict

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It…

— Jean Vanier