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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. – E. O. Wilson

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society… It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. – Stephen Harper

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action. – Eric Hoffer

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. – Angela Davis

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. – Simone de Beauvoir

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. – John Burroughs

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. – Lyndon B. Johnson

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. – Theodor Adorno

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. – John Stuart Mill

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. – Kevin Kelly

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. – Friedrich August von Hayek

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. – Theodor Adorno

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. – Washington Irving

Women are the real architects of society. – Cher

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. – John Stuart Mill

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality. – Jermaine Jackson