Community Quote by Herbert Spencer

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

— Herbert Spencer

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Oscar Wilde

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

— Phillips Brooks

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

— Samael Aun Weor

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Society is better off without certain people.

— Bernhard Goetz

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

— Ruth Benedict

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

— Clay Shirky

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

— Silvia Tennenbaum