Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
Charles Horton Cooley

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Charles Horton Cooley

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton Cooley

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
Marilyn vos Savant

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Stella Adler

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich Fromm

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Erich Fromm

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames