Ancient Quote by Matt Ridley

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

— Camille Paglia

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

— Dale Murphy

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational…

— Theodore Kaczynski

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

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

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Karl Marx

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and…

— Virginia Woolf

Society becomes how we behave.

— Gavin Newsom

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced…

— George Will

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change…

— Camille Paglia