This is it right here. “Society” does not have a will. Only individuals have a will. The closest thing to what he’s saying (and if you challenge him, what he will probably remit to) is “the will of most people”…as in “majority vote”…aka “mob rule”. If that’s what he is in favor of, he just better hope he’s never in the minority. The phrase “tyranny of the majority” exists for a reason. If your whole logic is “the will of the many supercedes the will of the few”, I suppose he’d be just fine if all the white people in the U.S. (still the vast majority by the way) decided everyone who wasn’t white should be enslaved.
Ah but he protects himself with the nice qualifier “at times”…the will of the society must at times supersede the will of the individual. So he doesn’t mean majority should rule all the time. Just sometimes. And I’m willing to bet the times that majority should rule…nay…“must” rule over the minority, are the times that he thinks it should. How convenient.