Adversity Quote by Robert Owen

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

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It…

— Jean Vanier

Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in…

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Phillips Brooks

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

— Silvia Tennenbaum

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

— Richard Jenkins

Society is better off without certain people.

— Bernhard Goetz

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority;…

— Bruce Schneier