“Society is an abstraction. Abstraction is not a reality. What is reality is relationship between man and man. The relationship between man and man has created that which we call society. Man is violent, self-centred, seeking pleasure, frightened, insecure; in himself he is corrupt and in his relationship, whether intimate or not, has created this so-called society. We always try to change society, not change man who creates the society in which we live.”

 

This article is only a small abstract from Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Public Talk 1 in Bombay (Mumbai), 24 January 1981