Society Individual Quotes

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society. — Richard Diaz

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard. — Zhuangzi

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. — Gunnar Myrdal

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time - this massiveness made of individuals. — Ai Weiwei

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. — Herbert Read

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson

If we define society as a human community, then the transformation of individual attitudes and values represents meaningful social change. — Leslie Weisman

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society. — Bernhard Goetz

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. — Albert Einstein

Human society is a single organism, like an individual human body or a tree. But — Marcus Aurelius

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. — C. Wright Mills

The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop! — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments) — Muse

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

No society can ever be so large as one man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society. — Joseph Campbell

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform. — John Ralston Saul

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives. — Israel Kirzner

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. — Ramsey Clark

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone De Beauvoir

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. — Naguib Mahfouz

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. — Charles Horton Cooley

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. — L. Ron Hubbard

Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual. — Jimmy Breslin

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be. — Ray Bradbury

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. — Jean De La Bruyere

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. — Murray Rothbard

Real change in society must start from individual initiative. — Dalai Lama

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state. — Paul Singer

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large. — Pope Leo XIII

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien De Robespierre

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop. — Herbert Marcuse

Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that. — Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. — John Stuart Mill

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. — Mahatma Gandhi

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. — Victor Hugo

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. — Norman Cousins

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation. — TOOTS888

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. — Gore Vidal

The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society. — George David Birkhoff

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics. — Albert Einstein

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. — John Stuart Mill

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society. — LeVar Burton

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

There is a crime commited by the society against the individual,a crime that is commited afresh each day — Victor Hugo

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. — Claude Levi-Strauss

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. — Peter Drucker

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will. — Ludwig Von Mises

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society. — Kenneth Kaunda

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. — Ayn Rand

Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil. — Auliq Ice

What is society but an individual? — Osamu Dazai

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. — Tipper Gore

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. — Ben Carson

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond
measure. — Bede Griffiths

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness. — Robert Anton Wilson

To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself. — Suzy Kassem

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual. — Osamu Dazai

Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born. — Erich Fromm

Natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. — Rachel Carson

I preach a Gospel not of despair but of hope for the individual, hope for society, and hope for the world. — Billy Graham

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media. — Criss Jami

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes? — Albert Einstein

Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit ... — John Geddes

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being. — D.H. Lawrence

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms. — Jacob M. Appel

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. — Friedrich Schiller

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. — B.F. Skinner

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole. — Rajneesh

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom. — Margaret Walker

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves. — Terence McKenna

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. — Evelyn Glennie

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious. — Ian McEwan

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. — Gary Hamel

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. — Bayard Rustin

The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being. — Peace Pilgrim

Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel. — Mark Gough

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels? — James Callaghan

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. — Abbie Hoffman

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. — Christopher Lasch

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values. — Sathya Sai Baba

No social stability without individual stability. — Aldous Huxley

A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors. — Georgia Harkness

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. — Ron Paul

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. — Arthur Koestler

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. — Garrett Hardin

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. — Vladimir Nabokov