Community Quote by George Will

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

Society becomes how we behave.

— Gavin Newsom

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

— Karl Marx

Society becomes how you behave.

— Eric Liu

“One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go up, individuality…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in…

— Matt Ridley

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

— Herbert Read

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the…

— Charles Darwin

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

— Timothy Leary

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh,…

— Marianne Williamson

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

— Martin Seligman

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.…

— Oscar Wilde