With all allowance made for Marx's erudition and his historic impact upon the social sciences, especially sociology, it is as an art united with prophecy, virtually religious prophecy, that Marxism survives.

-Nisbet, Robert
  Sociology as an  Art Form, ch.5.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle 3, l.317^18.

   Thosewhotalk most abouttheblessings of marriageand the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the claim were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would flyasunder.Youcan't havetheargument both ways.Ifthe prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

-Shaw, George Bernard
  DonJuan to AnnWhitefield. Man and Superman, act 3.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

-Small, AlbionW
  'AVision of Social Efficiency', in the AmericanJournal of Sociology, Jan.

The question of how to apply social theory to historical materials, as it is usually posed, is ridiculous.One does not apply theory to history; rather one uses history to develop theory.

-Stinchcombe, Arthur S
  Theoretical Methods in Social History, p.1.

If socialists lose sight of the central importance of social ownership of the means of production, they will cease, in a very real sense, to be socialists at all: they will subside into the role of well-intentioned, amiable, rootless, drifting social reformers.

-Strachey, (Evelyn) John
  Contemporary Capitalism.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate asthefingers,yetoneasthehand inall things essentialto mutual progress.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
American      soldier      and      statesman,      first     President.      As commander of American forces in theWar of Independence he displayed   great   powers   of   leadership,   suffering   defeats   at Brandywine  and  Germantown,  but  holding  his  army  together through  the winter  of 1777^8  at Valley  Forge.  After  the  alliance with France (1778), he forced the surrender of Cornwallis (1781) then retired to MountVernon, and sought strong constitutional government.   In   1787   he   presided   over   the   Constitutional Convention   and   became   President,   eventually   joining   the Federalist Party, and retired in1797.

It's full time work being on social security. They really make you earn your living.

-Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw
  The Heart of the Country,'Driven Mad'.

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

-Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
  Love and Mrs Lewisham, ch.23.