societal purpose Quotes

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.