Loading...

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Related Quotes

The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society.


Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.


Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.


Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.


Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.


Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.