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

— Pitirim Sorokin The Ways and Power of Love (1954)

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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.

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)

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

Pitirim Sorokin (1937)

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

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