But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the…

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of…

— Friedrich List

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is…

— Friedrich List

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

— Friedrich List

The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was…

— Ayn Rand

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the…

— Andrew Bernstein

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to…

— John Stuart Mill

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

— Ken Wilber

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom…

— Edward Said

“Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.”

— Audre Lorde

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

— Timothy Keller

The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a…

— J. G. A. Pocock

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to…

— Seymour Krim

“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”

— Malcolm Gladwell