Sorokin Pitirim Quotes & Sayings

One must endure without losing tenderness. — Che Guevara

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

Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors. — Gary Shteyngart

The things we judge in others are our shadows reflected back at us. — Rachelle Chartrand

[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

I fought for peace in the fifties. — Pete Seeger

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

Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire. — William Butler Yeats

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

The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure. — Steven R. McQueen

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

Staring at the can clock never influence the appointed time that God has ordained for your manifestation. Hold your peace, but don't shift focus. — Bayode Ojo

Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long. — Antonio Porchia

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

After all, it's the people you care about the most who can cut you the deepest. — Kristen Zimmer

I told her the clitoris is like a Bonsai tree that needs constant tending and the g-spot is an unexplored island waiting to have a flag pinned on its peak. She laughed and said I should be a poet. Then we went to bed and crossed the sheets as if it were a new continent we had just discovered. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. It's simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didn't count or wasn't good, and an hour later we're back looking for something to make us feel better. — Mary DeTurris Poust

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

Tragedies can contain some of life's greatest rewards and valuable lessons. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain makes you alert. Clouds bring forth the rain. As a wise man once said, 'You seek problems because you need their gifts.' Why would you rob someone of these benefits? — Brownell Landrum

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

To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Pearce

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

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person. — L. Ron Hubbard