Community Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally…

— Milton Sapirstein

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

— Ruth Benedict

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

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 is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Camille Paglia