Pitirim Sorokin Quotes

#1. [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.

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#2. Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

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#6. Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

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

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#8. Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!

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

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