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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Society is better off without certain people.
I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.
Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.