Pitirim A Sorokin Quotes & Sayings

None of us are getting out of here alive". — R. Alan Woods

You're going to need a better reason this time. A real reason. And just to be clear, I don't give a fuck what it is because I am not going to let you go. Period. — Claire Contreras

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. — Pitirim Sorokin

[ ... ] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks. — Terry Pratchett

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it. — Agatha Christie

If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God. — John Calvin

[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe. — Pitirim Sorokin

How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!". — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house. — Jerry Della Femina

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort. — F. Matthias Alexander

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently! — Pitirim Sorokin

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity. — Pitirim Sorokin

Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal. — Pitirim Sorokin

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. — Pitirim Sorokin

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. — Adrienne Rich

Every day I wake up, I say, 'Damn, I hope I don't get that call today.' I don't want to lose my mama. When I start thinking about that, I fall into a hole. — Clinton Portis

I'd go to hell to hear a good band. — Bix Beiderbecke

Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe. — Pitirim Sorokin

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. — Pitirim Sorokin

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return. — Jill Scott

In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and — Malcolm Gladwell

I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money. — Mark Schultz

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely. — Pitirim Sorokin

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please. — Francine Rivers

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones. — Pitirim Sorokin