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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.

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Society is at odds with itself.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.