Ancestor Quote by Cornelius Castoriadis

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

— Ruth Benedict

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and…

— Aldous Huxley

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

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself,…

— Thomas Huxley

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions…

— Andrea Dworkin

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one…

— David Antin

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

— Charles Horton Cooley