In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, I.E., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.