The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently! — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
[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… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image