J. Krishnamurti Online

We want order outside, in our society, in which there is no corruption, where everyone is responsible, and when you give your word, you keep that word. Society is an abstraction. Actually it doesn’t exist. What exists is man’s relationship to man, and that is society. To put it very simply, society is your particular relationship with another. That relationship may be based on anger, jealousy and exploitation, where each is ambitious, greedy, envious. What we are, society is. We should not begin with the ordering of society, but bringing about order in oneself.

Public Talk 3 in New Delhi, 7 November 1981