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id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chicago_Downtown_Aerial_View.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Chicago_Downtown_Aerial_View.jpg/220px-Chicago_Downtown_Aerial_View.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Chicago_Downtown_Aerial_View.jpg/330px-Chicago_Downtown_Aerial_View.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Chicago_Downtown_Aerial_View.jpg/440px-Chicago_Downtown_Aerial_View.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws. ~ <a href="/wiki/Edward_Abbey" title="Edward Abbey">Edward Abbey</a></figcaption></figure> <p>A <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/society" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:society">society</a></b>, or a <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> society, is a group of <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> related to each other through persistent <a href="/wiki/Relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Relations">relations</a>, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/territory" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:territory">territory</a>, subject to the same <a href="/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political">political</a> <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a> and dominant <a href="/wiki/Cultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Cultural">cultural</a> expectations. </p> <dl><dd><small>CONTENT:</small> <a href="#A–B">A–B</a> - <a href="#C–D">C–D</a> - <a href="#E–F">E–F</a> - <a href="#G–H">G–H</a> - <a href="#I–J">I–J</a> - <a href="#K–L">K–L</a> - <a href="#M–N">M–N</a> - <a href="#O–P">O–P</a> -<a href="#Q–R">Q–R</a> - <a href="#S–T">S–T</a> - <a href="#U–V">U–V</a> - <a href="#W–X">W–X</a> - <a href="#Y–Z">Y–Z</a> - <a href="#See_also">See also</a></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><i>listed alphabetically by author</i></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A–B"><span id="A.E2.80.93B"></span>A–B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A–B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The more <a href="/wiki/Corrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="Corrupt">corrupt</a> a society, the more numerous its <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Abbey" title="Edward Abbey">Edward Abbey</a>, <i>A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)</i> (1990).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Person" class="mw-redirect" title="Person">person</a> who cannot <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">live</a> in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a <a href="/wiki/Beast" class="mw-redirect" title="Beast">beast</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">god</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <i>Politics</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>What is not <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a>, <i>Meditations</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For it is most <a href="/wiki/True" class="mw-redirect" title="True">true</a> that a <a href="/wiki/Natural" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural">natural</a> and <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> <a href="/wiki/Hatred" title="Hatred">hatred</a> and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Savage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Savage (page does not exist)">savage</a> beast. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, <i>Essays</i>, Civil and Moral. Of Friendship. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and <a href="/wiki/Protection" title="Protection">protection</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, <i>The Advancement of Learning</i> (1605).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man becomes <a href="/wiki/Self-consciousness" title="Self-consciousness">conscious of himself</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> only in society and only by the <a href="/wiki/Collective_action" title="Collective action">collective action</a> of the whole society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin" title="Mikhail Bakunin">Mikhail Bakunin</a>, <i>Man, Society, and Freedom</i> (1871), as translated by Sam Dolgoff in <i>Bakunin on Anarchy</i> (1971)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> of society is the history of the inventive <a href="/wiki/Labors" class="mw-redirect" title="Labors">labors</a> that man alter man, alter his <a href="/wiki/Desires" class="mw-redirect" title="Desires">desires</a>, <a href="/wiki/Habits" class="mw-redirect" title="Habits">habits</a>, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and <a href="/wiki/Technological" class="mw-redirect" title="Technological">technological</a> metabolism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin" title="Isaiah Berlin">Isaiah Berlin</a>, <i>Karl Marx</i> (1978).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I <a href="/wiki/Think" class="mw-redirect" title="Think">think</a> we risk becoming the <a href="/wiki/Best" title="Best">best</a> <a href="/wiki/Informed" class="mw-redirect" title="Informed">informed</a> society that has ever <a href="/wiki/Died" class="mw-redirect" title="Died">died</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">ignorance</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Blades" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Rubén Blades">Rubén Blades</a>, in a conference at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harvard University">Harvard University</a> reported by Anne Stewart (AP: Cambridge, Mass.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19930218&id=BogzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gDgHAAAAIBAJ&pg=1161,744802">"Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV"</a>, <i>Bangor Daily News</i>, 18 February 1993.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A people is but the attempt of many<br />To rise to the completer life of one—<br />And those who live as models for the <a href="/wiki/Mass" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass">mass</a><br />Are singly of more <a href="/wiki/Value" class="mw-redirect" title="Value">value</a> than they all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, <i>Luria</i>, Act V, line 334. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But now being lifted into high society,<br /> And having pick'd up several odds and ends<br />Of <a href="/wiki/Free_thoughts" class="mw-redirect" title="Free thoughts">free thoughts</a> in his <a href="/wiki/Travels" class="mw-redirect" title="Travels">travels</a> for variety,<br /> He deem'd, being in a lone <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isle (page does not exist)">isle</a>, among <a href="/wiki/Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Friends">friends</a>,<br />That without any <a href="/wiki/Danger" title="Danger">danger</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Riot" title="Riot">riot</a>, he<br /> Might for long lying make himself amends;<br />And <a href="/wiki/Singing" title="Singing">singing</a> as he sung in his warm <a href="/wiki/Youth" title="Youth">youth</a>,<br />Agree to a short armistice with <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)" title="Don Juan (Byron)">Don Juan</a></i> (1818–24), Canto III, Stanza 83.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C–D"><span id="C.E2.80.93D"></span>C–D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C–D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bee_swarm_on_fallen_tree03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Bee_swarm_on_fallen_tree03.jpg/220px-Bee_swarm_on_fallen_tree03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Bee_swarm_on_fallen_tree03.jpg/330px-Bee_swarm_on_fallen_tree03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Bee_swarm_on_fallen_tree03.jpg/440px-Bee_swarm_on_fallen_tree03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1067" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>What is not <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees. ~ <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>What times! What <a href="/wiki/Manners" title="Manners">manners</a>! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <i>in Catilinam</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The only living socities are those which are animated by <a href="/wiki/Inequality" class="mw-redirect" title="Inequality">inequality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Injustice" title="Injustice">injustice</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Claudel" title="Paul Claudel">Paul Claudel</a>, <i>Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is the retention by <a href="/wiki/Twentieth-century" class="mw-redirect" title="Twentieth-century">twentieth-century</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom-Age" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Atom-Age">Atom-Age</a> men of the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> <a href="/wiki/Point_of_view_(philosophy)" title="Point of view (philosophy)">point of view</a> that says: You stay in your <a href="/wiki/Village" class="mw-redirect" title="Village">village</a> and I will stay in mine. If your <a href="/wiki/Sheep" title="Sheep">sheep</a> <a href="/wiki/Eat" class="mw-redirect" title="Eat">eat</a> our <a href="/wiki/Grass" title="Grass">grass</a> we will <a href="/wiki/Kill" class="mw-redirect" title="Kill">kill</a> you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> our ways is a <a href="/wiki/Witch" class="mw-redirect" title="Witch">witch</a> and we will kill him. Keep out of our village. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_S._Coon" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Carleton S. Coon">Carleton S. Coon</a>, <i>The Story of Man</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Those <a href="/wiki/Families" class="mw-redirect" title="Families">families</a>, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cooper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cooper (page does not exist)">Cooper</a>, <i>The Ways of the Hour</i>, Chapter VI. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In human society the <a href="/wiki/Warmth" class="mw-redirect" title="Warmth">warmth</a> is mainly at the bottom. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Noel_Jack_Counhian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Noel Jack Counhian (page does not exist)">Noel Jack Counhian</a>, <i>Age</i> (1986).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws<br />With <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a> wand. So potent is the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Spell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spell (page does not exist)">spell</a>,<br />That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,<br />Unless by <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a>'s peculiar <a href="/wiki/Grace" title="Grace">grace</a>, escape.<br />There we <a href="/wiki/Grow" class="mw-redirect" title="Grow">grow</a> early gray, but never <a href="/wiki/Wise" class="mw-redirect" title="Wise">wise</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, <i>The Task</i> (1785), Book II, line 627.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It's not <a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">sex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drug" class="mw-redirect" title="Drug">drug</a> advice these kids need, so much as <a href="/wiki/Help" title="Help">help</a> in acquiring a <a href="/wiki/World_view" title="World view">world view</a>, in motivating them to take <a href="/wiki/Responsibility" title="Responsibility">responsibility</a> and enabling them to build proper relationships. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Curry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Curry (page does not exist)">George Curry</a>, <i>Daily Mail</i> (1996).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mankind">Mankind</a> are not held together by <a href="/wiki/Lies" class="mw-redirect" title="Lies">lies</a>. <a href="/wiki/Trust" title="Trust">Trust</a> is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/our-composite-nationality/">"Our Composite Nationality"</a> (7 December 1869), Boston, Massachusetts.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="E–F"><span id="E.E2.80.93F"></span>E–F</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: E–F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Abstract" class="mw-redirect" title="Abstract">abstract</a> <a href="/wiki/Concept" title="Concept">concept</a> "society" means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of earlier generations. The individual is able to think, <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a>, strive, and <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a> by himself; but he depends so much upon society—in his physical, <a href="/wiki/Intellectual" title="Intellectual">intellectual</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Emotional" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional">emotional</a> <a href="/wiki/Existence" title="Existence">existence</a>—that it is impossible to think of him, or to <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a> him, outside the framework of society. It is "society" which provides man with <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clothing" title="Clothing">clothing</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">home</a>, the tools of work, <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a>, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> and <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> who are all <a href="/wiki/Hidden" class="mw-redirect" title="Hidden">hidden</a> behind the small <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">word</a> “society.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, <i>Why Socialism?</i> (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Dependence" class="mw-redirect" title="Dependence">dependence</a> of the individual upon society is a <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a> of nature which cannot be abolished. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, <i>Why Socialism?</i> (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Virtues" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtues">virtues</a> of society are the <a href="/wiki/Vices" title="Vices">vices</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Saint" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint">saint</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Essays, First Series</i> (1841).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Society everywhere is in <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy" title="Conspiracy">conspiracy</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Manhood" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhood">manhood</a> of every one of its members. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Self-Reliance</i> (1841).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, <i>Phœnissæ. Frag.</i> 809. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G–H"><span id="G.E2.80.93H"></span>G–H</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: G–H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the affluent society, no sharp distinction can be made between <a href="/wiki/Luxuries" class="mw-redirect" title="Luxuries">luxuries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Necessaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessaries">necessaries</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith" title="John Kenneth Galbraith">John Kenneth Galbraith</a>, <i>The Affluent Society</i> (1958).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For every social <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a> there must be a <a href="/wiki/Remedy" title="Remedy">remedy</a>. But the remedy can be nothing less than the <a href="/wiki/Abolition" class="mw-redirect" title="Abolition">abolition</a> of the wrong. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_George" title="Henry George">Henry George</a>, <i>Social Problems</i>, Chapter IX. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without <a href="/wiki/Pleasure" title="Pleasure">pleasure</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" title="Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</a>, <i>Memoirs</i>, Volume I, p. 116. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I do not think there is anything deserving the <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a> of society to be found out of <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Hazlitt" title="William Hazlitt">William Hazlitt</a>, <i>Table-Talk</i> (1822).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Rational" class="mw-redirect" title="Rational">rational</a> <a href="/wiki/Anarchist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchist">anarchist</a> <a href="/wiki/Believes" class="mw-redirect" title="Believes">believes</a> that concepts such as "<a href="/wiki/Statecraft" title="Statecraft">state</a>" and "society" and "<a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>" have no existence save as physically exemplified in the <a href="/wiki/Acts" class="mw-disambig" title="Acts">acts</a> of <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a>-<a href="/wiki/Responsible" class="mw-redirect" title="Responsible">responsible</a> <a href="/wiki/Individuals" class="mw-redirect" title="Individuals">individuals</a>. He believes that it is <a href="/wiki/Impossible" class="mw-redirect" title="Impossible">impossible</a> to shift <a href="/wiki/Blame" title="Blame">blame</a>, <a href="/wiki/Share" class="mw-redirect" title="Share">share</a> blame, distribute blame … as blame, <a href="/wiki/Guilt" title="Guilt">guilt</a>, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live <a href="/wiki/Perfectly" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfectly">perfectly</a> in an imperfect <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> … aware that his <a href="/wiki/Effort" title="Effort">effort</a> will be less than perfect yet undismayed by <a href="/wiki/Self-knowledge" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-knowledge">self-knowledge</a> of self-<a href="/wiki/Failure" title="Failure">failure</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress" title="The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress">The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress</a></i> (1966).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have really lost in our society the <a href="/wiki/Sense" class="mw-redirect" title="Sense">sense</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sacredness" title="Sacredness">sacredness</a> of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Hume" title="Basil Hume">Basil Hume</a>, <i>The Observer Review</i> (1995).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="I–J"><span id="I.E2.80.93J"></span>I–J</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: I–J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I will only suggest that greater biological knowledge may, before long, alter the whole structure of society. Those who think that the life of the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> will be like that of the present, only more so, are likely, I think, to be wrong. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/James_Jeans" title="James Jeans">James Jeans</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book">"Chapter VIII". <i>Living Philosophies</i>. Simon & Schuster. 1931. p. 116.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Chapter+VIII&rft.atitle=Living+Philosophies&rft.date=1931&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B116&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Society"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I live in the crowds of <a href="/wiki/Jollity" class="mw-redirect" title="Jollity">jollity</a>, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, <i>Rasselas</i>, Chapter XVI. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="K–L"><span id="K.E2.80.93L"></span>K–L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: K–L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur d'être ennuyè.</i> <ul><li>The wise man sometimes flees from society from <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> of being <a href="/wiki/Bored" class="mw-redirect" title="Bored">bored</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_de_La_Bruy%C3%A8re" title="Jean de La Bruyère">Jean de La Bruyère</a>, <i>Les Caractères</i>, V. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lamb" title="Charles Lamb">Charles Lamb</a>, <i>Captain Starkey</i>. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>-- <a href="/wiki/Social_life" class="mw-redirect" title="Social life">social life</a> is fill’d<br />With <a href="/wiki/Doubts" class="mw-redirect" title="Doubts">doubts</a> and vain <a href="/wiki/Aspirings" class="mw-redirect" title="Aspirings">aspirings</a>; <a href="/wiki/Solitude" title="Solitude">solitude</a>,<br />When the <a href="/wiki/Imagination" title="Imagination">imagination</a> is dethroned,<br />Is turned to weariness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a> <i>The Venetian Bracelet</i> (1829) 'A History of the Lyre'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Society is like a large piece of frozen <a href="/wiki/Water" title="Water">water</a>; and skating well is the great <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> of social life. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=L._E._Landon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="L. E. Landon (page does not exist)">L. E. Landon</a>. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li> <li>Full quote: Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water ; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Drown&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Drown (page does not exist)">drown</a> you. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Francesca_Carrara" title="Francesca Carrara">Francesca Carrara</a></i> (1834), Vol. I Chapter 25</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I <a href="/wiki/See" class="mw-redirect" title="See">see</a> clearly that society is as much a <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> as <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a>; and, also, that, like <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a>, one must be <a href="/wiki/Born" class="mw-redirect" title="Born">born</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">genius</a> for it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ethel_Churchill_(or_The_Two_Brides)" title="Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides)">Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides)</a></i> (1837), Vol. II Chapter 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote" class="mw-redirect" title="Don Quixote">Don Quixote</a> of one <a href="/wiki/Generation" title="Generation">generation</a> may live to <a href="/wiki/Hear" class="mw-redirect" title="Hear">hear</a> himself called the <a href="/wiki/Savior" class="mw-redirect" title="Savior">savior</a> of society by the next. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, <i>Don Quixote</i>. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M–N"><span id="M.E2.80.93N"></span>M–N</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: M–N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a> in which the two great <a href="/w/index.php?title=Commandments&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Commandments (page does not exist)">commandments</a> were, to hate your <a href="/wiki/Neighbour" class="mw-disambig" title="Neighbour">neighbour</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> your neighbour's <a href="/wiki/Wife" class="mw-redirect" title="Wife">wife</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay,_1st_Baron_Macaulay" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay">Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay</a>, <i>Essays</i>, Moore's Life of Lord Byron. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all <a href="/wiki/South_Africans" title="South Africans">South Africans</a>, both <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">white</a>, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their <a href="/wiki/Hearts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearts">hearts</a>, assured of their inalienable <a href="/wiki/Right" class="mw-redirect" title="Right">right</a> to human <a href="/wiki/Dignity" title="Dignity">dignity</a> - a <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainbow">rainbow</a> <a href="/wiki/Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation">nation</a> at <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> with itself and the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>, <i>Inaugural Address</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A society made up of the individuals who were all capable of original <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> would probably be unendurable. The pressure of <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> would simply drive it frantic. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.L._Mencken" class="mw-redirect" title="H.L. Mencken">H.L. Mencken</a>, <i>Minority Report</i> (1956).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a>, <i>Dissertations and Discussions</i> (1859).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cindy_Milstein" title="Cindy Milstein">Cindy Milstein</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA63">Anarchism and Its Aspirations</a></i>. AK Press. 1 May 2010. p. 63. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7">ISBN 978-1-84935-029-7</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anarchism+and+Its+Aspirations&rft.date=1+May+2010&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B63&rft.pub=AK+Press&rft.isbn=978-1-84935-029-7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FAnarchism_and_Its_Aspirations%2FFQLRDgAAQBAJ%3Fhl%3Den-419%26gbpv%3D1%26pg%3DPA63&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Society"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>There are two ways of considering society.  According to some, the development of human associations is not subject to providential, unchangeable <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a>.  Rather, these associations, having originally been <a href="/wiki/Organized" class="mw-redirect" title="Organized">organized</a> in a purely <a href="/w/index.php?title=Artificial&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Artificial (page does not exist)">artificial</a> manner by primeval legislators, can later be modified or remade by other legislators, in step with the progress of <i>social science</i>.  In this system the government plays a preeminent role, because it is upon it, the custodian of the principle of <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a>, that the daily task of modifying and remaking society devolves.</p><p>According to others, on the contrary, society is a purely natural fact.  Like the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Economic_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic science">economic science</a>, which studies the natural organism of society and shows how this organism functions.</p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gustave_de_Molinari" title="Gustave de Molinari">Gustave de Molinari</a>, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Production_of_Security" class="extiw" title="s:The Production of Security">The Production of Security</a></i> (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Production_of_Security.pdf/16" class="extiw" title="s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/16">pp. 15</a>–<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Production_of_Security.pdf/17" class="extiw" title="s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/17">16</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>Man experiences a multitude of <a href="/wiki/Needs" class="mw-redirect" title="Needs">needs</a>, on whose satisfaction his <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> depends, and whose non-satisfaction entails <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a>.  <a href="/wiki/Alone" class="mw-redirect" title="Alone">Alone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Isolated" class="mw-redirect" title="Isolated">isolated</a>, he could only provide in an incomplete, insufficient manner for these incessant needs.  The instinct of <a href="/wiki/Sociability" class="mw-redirect" title="Sociability">sociability</a> brings him together with similar persons, and drives him into <a href="/wiki/Communication" title="Communication">communication</a> with them.  Therefore, impelled by the <i><a href="/wiki/Self-interest" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-interest">self-interest</a></i> of the individuals thus brought together, a certain <i><a href="/wiki/Division_of_labor" title="Division of labor">division of labor</a></i> is established, necessarily followed by <a href="/wiki/Exchanges" class="mw-redirect" title="Exchanges">exchanges</a>.  In brief, we see an <i><a href="/wiki/Organization" title="Organization">organization</a></i> emerge, by means of which man can more completely satisfy his needs than he could living in isolation.</p><p><b>This natural organization is called <i>society</i>.</b></p><p><b>The object of society is therefore the most complete <a href="/wiki/Satisfaction" title="Satisfaction">satisfaction</a> of man's needs.  The division of labor and <a href="/wiki/Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Exchange">exchange</a> are the means by which this is accomplished.</b></p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gustave_de_Molinari" title="Gustave de Molinari">Gustave de Molinari</a>, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Production_of_Security/1" class="extiw" title="s:The Production of Security/1">§I</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Production_of_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="The Production of Security">The Production of Security</a></i> (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Production_of_Security.pdf/18" class="extiw" title="s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/18">pp. 17</a>–<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Production_of_Security.pdf/19" class="extiw" title="s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/19">18</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Old Lady T-sh-nd [Townshend] formerly <a href="/wiki/Observed" class="mw-redirect" title="Observed">observed</a> that the human <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">race</a> might be divided into three separate <a href="/wiki/Classes" class="mw-redirect" title="Classes">classes</a>—<a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a> and H-v-eys [Herveys]. <ul><li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montague" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Mary Wortley Montague">Lady Mary Wortley Montague</a> in Lord Wharncliffe's Ed. of her Letters and Works. Lady Louisa Stuart, in introductory anecdotes to the same, also credits the saying to Lady Montague, Volume I, p. 67. Attributed to Charles Pigott in The Jockey Club, Part II, p. 4. (Ed. 1792). Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La Société est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes.</i> <ul><li>Society is the <a href="/wiki/Union" class="mw-disambig" title="Union">union</a> of men and not the men themselves.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Montesquieu" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles de Montesquieu">Charles de Montesquieu</a>, <i>De l'Esprit</i>, X. 3. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This new <a href="/wiki/Rage" class="mw-redirect" title="Rage">rage</a> for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyming&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rhyming (page does not exist)">rhyming</a> badly,<br />Which late hath seized all ranks and classes,<br />Down to that new estate 'the masses.' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a>, <i>The Fudges in England</i>, Letter 4. The classes and the masses. A phrase used by Gladstone. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What will Mrs. Grundy say? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Morton" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Morton">Thomas Morton</a>, <i>Speed the Plough</i> (Ed. 1808), Act I, scene 1. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="O–P"><span id="O.E2.80.93P"></span>O–P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: O–P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Absence" title="Absence">absence</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> can rot a society from within.</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/world/europe/11prexy.text.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">Address in Oslo, Norway (9 December 2009)</a>.</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>Intense <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassionate</a> society. <ul><li>The Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.preventsuffering.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Guide-to-morphine-access.pdf">"Ending the Agony: Access to Morphine as an Ethical and Human Rights Imperative"</a> (2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our genetically enriched descendants may regard existence without "<i>dukkha</i>" - the abolition of <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a> - as the ethical foundation of any civilised society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Pearce_(philosopher)" title="David Pearce (philosopher)">David Pearce</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bltc.com/buddhism-suffering.html">"The conquest of suffering: Buddhism versus utilitarianism"</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, <i>I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity</i>, (An interview with Romain Molina)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Heav'n forming each on other to <a href="/wiki/Depend" class="mw-redirect" title="Depend">depend</a>,<br />A <a href="/wiki/Master" class="mw-redirect" title="Master">master</a>, or a <a href="/wiki/Servant" title="Servant">servant</a>, or a friend,<br />Bids each on other for <a href="/wiki/Assistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Assistance">assistance</a> call,<br />Till one man's <a href="/wiki/Weakness" title="Weakness">weakness</a> grows the <a href="/wiki/Strength" title="Strength">strength</a> of all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>An Essay on Man</i> (1733–34), Epistle II, line 249.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Q–R"><span id="Q.E2.80.93R"></span>Q–R</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Q–R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The men with the muck-rakes are often <a href="/wiki/Indispensable" class="mw-redirect" title="Indispensable">indispensable</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Well-being" class="mw-redirect" title="Well-being">well-being</a> of society; but only if they <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the <a href="/wiki/Celestial" class="mw-redirect" title="Celestial">celestial</a> crown above them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, address on the laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building, Washington, D.C. (14 March 1906).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education" title="Emile, or On Education">Emile, or On Education</a></i> (1762), Book I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education" title="Emile, or On Education">Emile, or On Education</a></i> (1762), Book III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In human society man is the chief tool of man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education" title="Emile, or On Education">Emile, or On Education</a></i> (1762), Book III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Money is the source of all the false ideas of society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education" title="Emile, or On Education">Emile, or On Education</a></i> (1762), Book III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education" title="Emile, or On Education">Emile, or On Education</a></i> (1762), Book IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Men are depraved and perverted by society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education" title="Emile, or On Education">Emile, or On Education</a></i> (1762), Book IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education" title="Emile, or On Education">Emile, or On Education</a></i> (1762), Book IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Society is not created by the crowd. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i>Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques</i> (published 1782). Second Dialogue.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S–T"><span id="S.E2.80.93T"></span>S–T</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: S–T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Sociale animal est.</i> <ul><li>[Man] is a social <a href="/wiki/Animal" class="mw-redirect" title="Animal">animal</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, <i>De Beneficiis</i>, Book VII. 1. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Society is no <a href="/wiki/Comfort" title="Comfort">comfort</a><br />To one not <a href="/wiki/Sociable" class="mw-redirect" title="Sociable">sociable</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cymbeline" title="Cymbeline">Cymbeline</a></i> (1611), Act IV, scene 2, line 12. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,<br />Who, having seen me in my worst estate,<br />Shunn'd my abhorr'd society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> (1608), Act V, scene 3, line 208. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To make society<br />The <a href="/wiki/Sweeter" class="mw-redirect" title="Sweeter">sweeter</a> <a href="/wiki/Welcome" title="Welcome">welcome</a>, we will keep ourself<br />Till supper-time alone. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (1605), Act III, scene 1, line 42. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Men lived like <a href="/wiki/Fishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Fishes">fishes</a>; the great ones <a href="/wiki/Devoured" class="mw-redirect" title="Devoured">devoured</a> the small. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algernon_Sidney" title="Algernon Sidney">Algernon Sidney</a>, <i>Discourses on Government</i>, Chapter II, Section XVIII. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No society can surely be <a href="/w/index.php?title=Flourishing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Flourishing (page does not exist)">flourishing</a> and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miserable" class="mw-redirect" title="Miserable">miserable</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Adam Smith</a>, <i>Wealth of Nations</i> (1776).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As the <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> say, there are three <a href="/wiki/Sexes" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexes">sexes</a>,—men, women, and <a href="/wiki/Clergymen" class="mw-redirect" title="Clergymen">clergymen</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Smith" title="Sydney Smith">Sydney Smith</a>, <i>Lady Holland's Memoir</i>, Volume I, p. 262. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanille of society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Smith" title="Sydney Smith">Sydney Smith</a>, <i>Lady Holland's Memoir</i>, Volume I, p. 262. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum_41" class="extiw" title="w:Sum 41">Sum 41</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2XwkAgbd4">"Fat Lip"</a>, <i>All Killer No Filler</i> (2001), Island Records</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Society can imprison one's happiness <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Katherine_Szabo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katherine Szabo (page does not exist)">Katherine Szabo</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jenna_Huskic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jenna Huskic (page does not exist)">Jenna Huskic</a>, <i>The Q Bus</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is impossible, in our <a href="/w/index.php?title=Condition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Condition (page does not exist)">condition</a> of Society, not to be sometimes a <a href="/wiki/Snob" title="Snob">Snob</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray" title="William Makepeace Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</a>, <i>Book of Snobs</i>, Chapter III. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right <a href="/wiki/Order" title="Order">order</a> of life, nor a <a href="/wiki/Rich" class="mw-redirect" title="Rich">rich</a> society too rich to have need to seek it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R.H._Tawney" class="mw-redirect" title="R.H. Tawney">R.H. Tawney</a>, <i>The Acquisitive Society</i> (1921).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They're casting their <a href="/wiki/Problem" title="Problem">problem</a> on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are <a href="/wiki/Families" class="mw-redirect" title="Families">families</a>. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a> to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>, without the <a href="/wiki/Obligations" class="mw-redirect" title="Obligations">obligations</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> 23 September 1987, as quoted in an interview by Douglas Keay, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Own" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Woman's Own">Woman's Own</a></i>, 31 October 1987, pp. 8–10. A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106689">transcript of the interview</a> at the Margaret Thatcher Foundation website differs in several particulars, but not in substance.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty <a href="/wiki/Institutions" class="mw-redirect" title="Institutions">institutions</a>, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their <a href="/wiki/Desperate" class="mw-redirect" title="Desperate">desperate</a> oddfellow society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, <i>Walden</i> (1854).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="U–V"><span id="U.E2.80.93V"></span>U–V</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: U–V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Society therefore is as <a href="/wiki/Ancient" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient">ancient</a> as the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>, <i>Dictionnaire philosophique portatif</i> ("<i>A Philosophical Dictionary</i>") (1764), Policy. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li>Ariadne von Schirach, <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W–X"><span id="W.E2.80.93X"></span>W–X</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: W–X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I suppose Society is <a href="/wiki/Wonderfully" class="mw-redirect" title="Wonderfully">wonderfully</a> <a href="/wiki/Delightful" class="mw-redirect" title="Delightful">delightful</a>.<br />To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a <a href="/wiki/Tragedy" title="Tragedy">tragedy</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, <i>A Woman of No Importance</i> (1893), Act III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, <i>An Ideal Husband</i>, Act III. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the <a href="/wiki/City" class="mw-redirect" title="City">city</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Parker_Willis" title="Nathaniel Parker Willis">Nathaniel Parker Willis</a>, <i>Necessity for a Promenade Drive</i>. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nor greetings where no <a href="/wiki/Kindness" title="Kindness">kindness</a> is, nor all<br />The dreary intercourse of daily life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is<br />One great society alone on earth:<br />The <a href="/wiki/Noble" class="mw-redirect" title="Noble">noble</a> Living and the noble <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">Dead</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>The Prelude</i>, Book XI. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 724–25.</li></ul></li> <li>Society became my glittering bride,<br />And airy hopes my children. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>The Excursion</i> (1814), Book III</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Y–Z"><span id="Y.E2.80.93Z"></span>Y–Z</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Y–Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Respectfully_Quoted:_A_Dictionary_of_Quotations_(1989)"><span id="Respectfully_Quoted:_A_Dictionary_of_Quotations_.281989.29"></span><i>Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations</i> (1989)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Now, the vicissitudes that <a href="/wiki/Afflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Afflict">afflict</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Control" title="Control">control</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Study" class="mw-redirect" title="Study">study</a> of how it is to be done is the function of politics. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan" title="Aneurin Bevan">Aneurin Bevan</a>, In Place of Fear; chapter 3, p. 38 (1952).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[Society] is a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Partnership&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Partnership (page does not exist)">partnership</a> in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the <a href="/wiki/Ends" class="mw-disambig" title="Ends">ends</a> 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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, "Reflections on the Revolution in France", 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 359 (1899).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where <a href="/wiki/Enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Enterprise">enterprise</a> gains no <a href="/wiki/Reward" title="Reward">reward</a> and thrift no <a href="/wiki/Privileges" class="mw-redirect" title="Privileges">privileges</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 7, p. 6761 (1974).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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 <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> series of <a href="/wiki/Protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Protests">protests</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dissents" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissents">dissents</a>. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a>; and that is where we are today. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_O._Douglas" title="William O. Douglas">William O. Douglas</a>, Points of Rebellion, p. 56 (1970).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which <a href="/wiki/Talent" title="Talent">talent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ambition" title="Ambition">ambition</a> flow—by the tilt of the social landscape. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Hoffer" title="Eric Hoffer">Eric Hoffer</a>, The Temper of Our Time, p. 104 (1967).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Principles" title="Principles">principles</a> of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Jefferson</a> are the <a href="/wiki/Definitions" class="mw-redirect" title="Definitions">definitions</a> and axioms of <a href="/wiki/Free_society" title="Free society">free society</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, letter to Henry L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859; in Roy P. Basler, ed., <i>The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln</i> (1953), vol. 3, p. 375.</li></ul></li></ul> <p>Ĉ </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_society" title="Civil society">Civil society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_society" title="Communist society">Communist society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">Community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_society" title="Free society">Free society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">Social class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_science" title="Social science">Social science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">Sociology</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <td style="background:#E4F2E4" align="center" colspan="3"><b>Social and political philosophy</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#E4F2E4">Ideologies</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">Anarchism</a> ⦿ <i><a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">Aristocratic Radicalism</a></i><small> (<a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche</a> • <a href="/wiki/Georg_Brandes" title="Georg Brandes">Brandes</a>...)</small> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Autarchism" class="mw-redirect" title="Autarchism">Autarchism</a> ⦿ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27athism" class="extiw" title="w:Ba'athism">Ba'athism</a> <small>(• <a href="/wiki/Michel_Aflaq" title="Michel Aflaq">Aflaq</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad" title="Hafez al-Assad">al-Assad</a> • <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Hussein</a>)</small> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a> ⦿ (Neo-)<a href="/wiki/Confucianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">Conservatism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Constitutions" title="Constitutions">Constitutionalism</a> ⦿ <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Enlightenment">Dark Enlightenment</a></i> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">Environmentalism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a> <small>(• <i><a href="/wiki/Islamofascism" title="Islamofascism">Islamo-</a></i> • <a href="/wiki/Pentti_Linkola" title="Pentti Linkola">Eco-</a> • <a href="/wiki/Francoism" class="mw-redirect" title="Francoism">Francoism</a>...)</small> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">Feminism</a> <small>(• <a href="/wiki/Anarcha-feminism" title="Anarcha-feminism">Anarcha-</a> • <a href="/wiki/Radical_feminism" title="Radical feminism">Radical</a> • <a 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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche" class="extiw" title="w:Juche">Juche</a> <small>(• <a href="/wiki/Kim_Il-sung" title="Kim Il-sung">Kim Il-sung</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-il" title="Kim Jong-il">Kim Jong Il</a> • <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong Un</a>...)</small> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">Liberalism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">Libertarianism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Laissez-faire" title="Laissez-faire">Laissez-faire</a> <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">Capitalism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Maoism" class="mw-redirect" title="Maoism">Maoism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Mozi" title="Mozi">Mohism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Republicanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicanism">Republicanism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">Social democracy</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a> ⦿ <a 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title="Heteronomy">Heteronomy</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">Totalitarianism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">Colonialism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">Imperialism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Communitarianism" title="Communitarianism">Communitarianism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">Liberalism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Elitism" title="Elitism">Elitism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">Populism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority" title="Tyranny of the majority">Majoritarianism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Egalitarianism" title="Egalitarianism">Egalitarianism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">Individualism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Collectivism" title="Collectivism">Collectivism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">Nationalism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Cosmopolitanism" title="Cosmopolitanism">Cosmopolitanism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Particularism" class="mw-redirect" title="Particularism">Particularism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Universalism" title="Universalism">Universalism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">Modernism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Progressivism" title="Progressivism">Progressivism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">Postmodernism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Reactionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Reactionism">Reactionism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Traditionalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditionalism">Traditionalism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Futurism" title="Futurism">Futurism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Transhumanism" title="Transhumanism">Transhumanism</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#E4F2E4">Concepts</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alienation" title="Alienation">Alienation</a> ⦿ <i><a href="/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis" title="Samuel T. Francis">Anarcho-tyranny</a></i> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim" title="Émile Durkheim">Anomie</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">Authority</a> ⦿ <i><a href="/wiki/Robert_Conquest" title="Robert Conquest">Conquest's Laws of Politics</a></i> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">Duty</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Eugenics" title="Eugenics">Eugenics</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Elite" title="Elite">Elite</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Elite_theory" title="Elite theory">Elite theory</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Emancipation" title="Emancipation">Emancipation</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">Equality</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">Freedom</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">Government</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Hegemony" title="Hegemony">Hegemony</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Hierarchy" title="Hierarchy">Hierarchy</a> ⦿ <i><a href="/wiki/Robert_Michels" title="Robert Michels">Iron law of oligarchy</a></i> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">Justice</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">Law</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Monopoly" title="Monopoly">Monopoly</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">Natural law</a> ⦿ <i><a href="/wiki/Noblesse_oblige" title="Noblesse oblige">Noblesse oblige</a></i> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Norms" class="mw-redirect" title="Norms">Norms</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Obedience" title="Obedience">Obedience</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">Peace</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Pluralism" title="Pluralism">Pluralism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Dahl" title="Robert A. 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