Able Quote by Emile Durkheim

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

— Carroll Quigley

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 is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

— Clay Shirky

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

— Oscar Wilde

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

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.…

— Duane Elgin

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

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Ruth Benedict

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start…

— John Irving