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A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Society is better off without certain people.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

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

You can't build a society without law.