Community Quote by Osamu Dazai

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum…

— Osamu Dazai

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in…

— B. R. Ambedkar

“If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“(A) society of disconnected individuals without responsibility for one another isn't a society at all.”

— Melissa McEwan

“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.”

— Raymond Hull

“What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not…

— Sylvia Earle

“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself...”

— Aldous Huxley

“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”

— Kathy Acker

“A society is defined not only by what it creates but also by what it refuses to destroy. ”

— Anonymous

“The sea reminds me of my finiteness, limitations, minuteness and powerlessness, because the sea is none of these.”

— Michael C. Christen

“Culture is the sea we swim in - so pervasive, so all-consuming, that we fail to notice its existence until we step out of…

— Eric Weiner

“There is no change within a society that does not begin within an individual.”

— Justin Wetch