That which conforms can never flower in goodness. There must be freedom, and freedom comes only when you understand the whole problem of envy, greed, ambition, and the desire for power. It is freedom from those things that allows the extraordinary thing called character to flower. So the flowering of goodness does not lie within society, because society in itself is always corrupt. Only one who is freeing from it, has character, and can flower in goodness. 

Krishnamurti, 
The Book of Life