8 quotes
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 (1927)
Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.
Pitirim Sorokin (1964)
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 (1942)
Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.
The Ways and Power of Love (1954)
Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.
The Ways and Power of Love (1954)
Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!
Pitirim Sorokin (1937)
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 (1948)
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.
The Ways and Power of Love (1954)