Community Quote by L.E. Modesitt Jr

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

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

— Henry George

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

“What do you mean when you say society? Where is this society? This is one of the greatest escapes – only individuals exist –…

— Osho

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

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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Herbert Spencer

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

— Mark Steyn