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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Social change comes through people.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.