Quotes About Society Over The Individual

#1. Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual, both by the force of opinion and even by that of legislation:

John Stuart Mill

#2. Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

John Stuart Mill

#3. Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#4. By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

Dwight Macdonald

#5. Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life ...

George Will

#6. Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Robert Musil

#8. 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

#9. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Evita Peron

#10. Wherever the Bible has been consistently applied, it has dramatically changed the civilization and culture of those who have accepted its teaching. No other book has ever so dramatically changed the individual lives and society in general.

John F. Walvoord

#11. Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. Our ethics and systems of justice, our entire moral order, are founded on the notion of society as a collective of individual selves-- autonomous, introspective, accountable agents. If this self-reflective, moral agent is revealed to be illusory, what then?

Paul Broks

#13. Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.

Jacob Bronowski

#14. I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Hufstedler

#16. Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

K. Hari Kumar

#17. 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.

#18. There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

Richard Berry

#19. The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.

Samael Aun Weor

#20. 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

#21. The public has a vital stake in natural resources, Jim, such as iron ore. The public can't remain indifferent to reckless, selfish waste by an anti-social individual. After all, private property is a trusteeship held for the benefit of society as a whole.

Ayn Rand

#22. No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.

Arthur C. Clarke

#23. When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

Ayn Rand

#24. For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#25. Human society is a single organism, like an individual human body or a tree. But

Marcus Aurelius

#26. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Criss Jami

#27. 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

#28. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.

Marcus Garvey

#29. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.

Ron Paul

#30. The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

Eric Hoffer

#31. The Internet changes the structure of society all the time - this massiveness made of individuals.

Ai Weiwei

#32. It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,
than the limitations society tries to place upon them.

Robert M. Hensel

#33. Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

Stuart Chase

#35. You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. That is why we must go on to think of the second thing: of morality inside the individual.

C.S. Lewis

#36. Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

James A. Michener

#37. 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

#38. Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

Jacques Ellul

#39. The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

Edmund A. Opitz

#40. 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

#41. Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.

Kenan Malik

#43. A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

Michel Houellebecq

#44. Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

Gore Vidal

#45. Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

Rajneesh

#46. The way we live has less to do with individual choices and more to do with the general bent of our society than many of us realize. We forget that we don't need everything.

David Suzuki