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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 Pitirim Sorokin (1948)

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

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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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Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.

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

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