Pitirim Sorokin Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The sudden appearance of pain and pressure are not indicative of an injury, but of the presence of suppressed emotions.

Heidi DuPree

#3. 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

#4. Don't buy market share. Figure out how to earn it.

Philip Kotler

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

Pitirim Sorokin

#6. 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

#7. Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will talk of socialism or anarchy, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, which all comes to the same thing, they're the same questions turned inside out.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Pitirim Sorokin

#9. I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

Wendelin Van Draanen

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

Pitirim Sorokin

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

David Lee Roth

#14. Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.

Billy Collins

#15. I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.

Wade Guyton

#16. A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slug's a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?

Dylan Thomas

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

Pitirim Sorokin

#18. These may or may not be used in your actual novels, but it will give you a sense of relationships and help you establish the habits needed to write on a regular basis.

Patricia Gilliam

#19. Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Jean Baudrillard

#20. You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

Anne Lamott

#21. [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

#22. The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Billy Sunday