"In the past, women were supposed to be pretty and men successful. Nowadays, everyone has to be able to do everything, and the pressure to satisfy that goal, along with the insecurity it brings, has doubled. Expectations rise while birth rates fall. Women have become a more horrific version of men, readily expressing their displeasure over lack of sexual compliance. Men have become insecure and have fled to the Internet. Both are approaching a state of narcissistic lunacy, and solidarity is something that seems attainable only among friends."

"Society therefore is as ancient as the world."

"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society."

"They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations."

"As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it."

"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."

"Society can imprison one's happiness"

"I don't want to waste my time; become another casualty of society. I'll never fall in line; become another victim of your conformity and back down."

"Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanille of society."

"As the French say, there are three sexes,—men, women, and clergymen."

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

"Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small."

"To make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Till supper-time alone."

"Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man, Who, having seen me in my worst estate, Shunn'd my abhorr'd society."

"Society is no comfort To one not sociable."

"Sociale animal est."

"Society is not created by the crowd."

"Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public."

"Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society."

"Men are depraved and perverted by society."

"The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society."

"The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow—by the tilt of the social landscape."

"The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today."

"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges."

"[Society] is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

"Intense suffering may be a private, internal phenomenon, often hidden from the gaze or awareness of others, but it is the most viscerally overwhelming experience there is, pleading desperately for relief. There is nothing else that has greater urgency than preventing or relieving intense suffering – of human beings and, indeed, of any sentient beings capable of suffering. It is the single most important goal of a compassionate society."

"Money is the source of all the false ideas of society."

"In human society man is the chief tool of man."

"There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society."

"Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs."

"The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them."

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

"Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all."

"I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity."

"Our genetically enriched descendants may regard existence without "dukkha" - the abolition of suffering - as the ethical foundation of any civilised society."

"The absence of hope can rot a society from within."

"What will Mrs. Grundy say?"

"This new rage for rhyming badly, Which late hath seized all ranks and classes, Down to that new estate 'the masses.'"

"La Société est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes."

"Old Lady T-sh-nd [Townshend] formerly observed that the human race might be divided into three separate classes—men, women and H-v-eys [Herveys]."

"Man experiences a multitude of needs, on whose satisfaction his happiness depends, and whose non-satisfaction entails suffering. Alone and isolated, he could only provide in an incomplete, insufficient manner for these incessant needs. The instinct of sociability brings him together with similar persons, and drives him into communication with them. Therefore, impelled by the self-interest of the individuals thus brought together, a certain division of labor is established, necessarily followed by exchanges. In brief, we see an organization emerge, by means of which man can more completely satisfy his needs than he could living in isolation. This natural organization is called society. The object of society is therefore the most complete satisfaction of man's needs. The division of labor and exchange are the means by which this is accomplished."

"There are two ways of considering society. According to some, the development of human associations is not subject to providential, unchangeable laws. Rather, these associations, having originally been organized in a purely artificial manner by primeval legislators, can later be modified or remade by other legislators, in step with the progress of social science. In this system the government plays a preeminent role, because it is upon it, the custodian of the principle of authority, that the daily task of modifying and remaking society devolves. According to others, on the contrary, society is a purely natural fact. Like the earth on which it stands, society moves in accordance with general, preexisting laws. In this system, there is no such thing, strictly speaking, as social science; there is only economic science, which studies the natural organism of society and shows how this organism functions."

"This is the essence of a good society: that people are able to feel goodness in themselves and each other as much as possible; that even when things are difficult or life is painful, people have the support of others; that the ways we get things done are also the ways we carve out spaces to fully see and appreciate each other. And have fun."

"When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan."

"A society made up of the individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic."

"We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world."

"A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife."