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Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away. By Willis Harman Society Legitimacy

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society. By Samael Aun Weor Individual Society Extension Cruel Merciless

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute. By Francis Schaeffer Absolute Society Judge

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger. By John Dewey Society Life Transmission Exists Process

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. By Phillips Brooks Society Individual Lose Exist Man

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics ... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group. By Emile Durkheim Society Mere Sum Group Individuals

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic. By Paul Bowles Isolated Isolation Anesthetic Concept Society

Society's needs come before the individuals needs By Adolf Hitler Society Individuals

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own. By Ludwig Von Mises Society Joint Action Cooperation Participant

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic. By Peter Thiel Powerful Problematic Society Real

Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy. By Henry Adams Pacific Society Kindlymannered Pleasant Brave

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it? By Hubert H. Humphrey Slogan Society Easy Measure Abstract

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. By James A. Baldwin Myth Coercion Word Society Legend

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Solitude World Society Voices Hear

Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not to be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse.""You get all that from a pink Onesie?" Leah said after a moment. By Sarah Dessen Society Onesie Add Nice Assertive

When we become curious about the dissatisfying defaults in our world, we begin to recognize that most of them have social origins: Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. Before By Adam M. Grant Rules World Origins People Curious

Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them. By Arnold Joseph Toynbee Relations Human Society Total Network

You belong to society, you give to society. By Elizabeth Strout Society Belong Give

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. By Wilhelm Dilthey Society Upheavals Civilization Knowledge Forces

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school. By Henry Sidgwick Society School Schoolmaster Estimates Boys

The Society isn't human, but the people work for it sometimes are. By Ally Condie Society Human People Work

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead. By Henry Adams Society Immortal Folly Vice Killed

Society is unity in diversity. By George Herbert Mead Society Diversity Unity

But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies ... and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and had better find the way out. By Charles Dickens Sahara Desert Ladies Mankind Society

I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down ... By Charles Bukowski Society Understood Realities Undersand Works

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. By Edward Abbey Society Stew Top Stir Layer

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along. By Michel De Montaigne Customs Practices Life Society Sweep

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual. By Marge Piercy Life Programming Live Media Soup

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way. By Erving Goffman Society Organized Principle Individual Possesses

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Wave Onward Moves Water

What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of. By Amit Abraham Minds Majority Society Unmindful

Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game. By Charles Horton Cooley Mind Society Interweaving Interworking Mental

To be in Society is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing. By Oscar Wilde Society Bore Tragedy Thing Simply

societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers. By Baruch Fischhoff Societies Dangers Define Manage

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton Society Ridges Repose Long Series

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system. By Swami Vivekananda Change Society Progress Judicious System

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status quo for the better, it changes for the worse. Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begin to decay. By Erich Fromm True Holds Society Individual Stand

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will. By Virginia Woolf Inevitably Society Truth Deforms Mind

Every community classifies, coerces, and restricts its members in some fashion; the particulars vary, but compliance with social forms is an inescapable fact of human existence. The exaggerated requirements By Edith Wharton Coerces Classifies Fashion Vary Existence

The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members By Thomas Jefferson Members Measure Society Treats Weakest

Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers By Wayne Dyer Conformists Troublemakers General Honor Living

Society gets by from the help of its citizens. By Brian Joyce Society Citizens

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science. By Henry Charles Carey Man Society Science Molecule Subject

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards. By Penelope Spheeris Common Consciousness Birds Periods Standards

Society is the total of the forced or voluntary services that men perform for each other; that is to say, of public services and private services. By Frederic Bastiat Services Society Total Forced Voluntary

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. By Karl Marx Society Interrelations Stand Individuals Consist

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society' By David Wojnarowicz Society Call Rage Life Thing

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. By Peter L. Berger Society Prerogative Interested Understand Comparing

To those who do not see, we are the enigma of society By Dara Reidyr Society Enigma

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful. By Joseph Hall Society Souls Healthful Atmosphere Necessarily

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience. By George Santayana Justified Society Spirit Conscience Accident

This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. By Yoko Ono Image People Society Driven Neurotic

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. By August Strindberg Society Police Madhouse Wardens Officials

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power. By Camille Paglia Society Construction Power Artificial Defense

Men build society and society builds men. By B.f. Skinner Men Society Build Builds

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. By George Santayana Society Air Breathe Insufficient Live

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else ... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age. By B.f. Skinner Interests Society Conflict Wins Advantage

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton Appearances Society Based Realities Deepest

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating ... ... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus. By Alejandro Jodorowsky Change Mutate Society Embody Cells

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state. By David Cameron Society Thing State

However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. By Paulo Coelho Society Behaving Imposes Collective People

Society is constituted by the mental interaction of individuals and exists wherever two or three individuals have reciprocal conscious relations to each other. By Charles Abram Ellwood Society Individuals Constituted Mental Interaction

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. By Walter Weyl Philosophies Surplus Society Overrides Traditions

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever. By Orison Swett Marden Society Seed Individual Sun Showers

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Frivolous Scraps Escapes Shreds

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them By John Rawls Principles Time Basic Structure Society

Society forces you to conform. By Ken Wilber Society Conform Forces

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 the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Citizen Society Illusion Young Centre

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever By Virginia Woolf Society Time Whatsoever Powerful Concoction

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination. By Patricia Crone Societies Imagination Human Confronted Irreducible

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate. By Peter Drucker Legitimate Society Function Social Individual

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. By Nick Harkaway Society Discontent People Homes Bodies

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics. By Aneurin Bevan Society Vicissitudes Afflict Individual Source

Any society, in order to survive, must mold the character of its members in such a way that they want to do what they have to do; their social function must become internalized and transformed into something they feel driven to do, rather than something they are obliged to do. By Erich Fromm Society Survive Order Mold Character

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest By Zygmunt Bauman Weakest Judge Society Decency Living

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by. By William Hazlitt Imagine Society Level Surface Superiority

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. By Robert Reich Public Society Institutions Schools Libraries

Society reproduces itself antagonistically. By Rudolf J. Siebert Society Antagonistically Reproduces

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. By Karl Marx Society Effect Sort Organism Growth

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate. By Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger Society Sought Associate Origin Natural

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. By Ayn Rand Society Effort Mind Judgment Strictly

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . By Samuel Laman Blanchard Mendacity Society Diffusion Social Political

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives. By John Zerzan Mass Community Lives Society Displaced

Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs all revolutions in the whole of history, because one man can become the womb for God to be reborn. By Rajneesh Society Individual Soul Structure Outweighs

Artists don't create society, they reflect it By Ben Elton Artists Society Create Reflect

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. By Christian Nestell Bovee Frivolous Savage Society Makes Man

you are not a product of society, you are a product of your choices, and decisions....you set the direction of your life, not others By Rick Ferreira Product Society Choices Decisions Life

The activities in a society is determined by its establishment By Sunday Adelaja Establishment Activities Society Determined

A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane. By Matt Haig Insane Society Demands Normal Drives

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future. By Pope Pius Xii Wears Clothing Society Speaks Part

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. By Edward Abbey Nature Big Social Institutions Reflect

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else. By Sue Grafton Society Independence Obedience Individuality Cooperation

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. By Herbert Spencer Benefit Society Members Exists

Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn. By Edmund Burke Society Dead Unborn Partnership Living

Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediate triumph is everything. 'Human beings never submit to human beings.' Even slaves practice their mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any means of survival except of a single then-and-there contest. They speak of duty to one's country and such like things, but the object of their effort is invariably the individual, and, even once the individual's needs have been met, again the individual comes in. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals. By Osamu Dazai Individual Human Society Struggle Incomprehensibility

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! By Rupaul Observations Superstition Clear Society Rules

It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called "human nature" is but one of its many manifestations - and often a pathological one - and the function of such mistaken definition usually has been to defend a particular type of society as being the necessary one. By Erich Fromm Nature Human Science Man Called

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together. By Tony Blair Society Works Putting Opportunity Responsibility

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. By Kurt Vonnegut Society Occasion Health Worst Describer

Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create. By Virginia Satir Put Existing Families Society Kind