It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. -Jeremy Bentham _An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation_, 1789 Chapter I, "Of the Principle of Utility"3
A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. -Thomas Jefferson
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Krishnamurti
Civil society depends on people agreeing to two things: Don't deliberately give offense to others, and don't be too easily offended. Too few people are giving any thought to either.-Karl Lembke
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life. - Shelby Steele
Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats- Thomas Sowell
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.- Margaret Thatcher, Woman's Own, 31 October 1987.
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