Absence Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism, is the…

— Oscar Wilde

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 is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net…

— Robert Hugh Benson

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Camille Paglia

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain…

— John Dewey

For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of…

— Jean Piaget

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those…

— Aga Khan IV

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means…

— Heinrich Heine

“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

“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards…

— H.G. Wells

Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their…

— Friedrich August von Hayek