Community Quote by Clay Shirky

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

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

— Ruth Benedict

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

— Carroll Quigley

Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

— Herbert Spencer

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the…

— Ruth Benedict

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

“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

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

— Herbert Spencer

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

The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project…

— Herbert Marcuse

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is…

— Peter Drucker

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti