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> [The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/the-most-effective-and-most-accessible-way-to-acquire-the-maximum-of/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

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## More by Pitirim Sorokin

> [Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/love-is-the-supreme-value-around-which-all-moral-values-can-be/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/only-the-power-of-unbounded-love-practiced-in-regard-to-all-human/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/hate-begets-hate-violence-engenders-violence-hypocrisy-is-answered-by/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/man-is-a-conscious-rational-thinker-and-a-supra-conscious-creator/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/either-the-conscious-intellect-is-impotent-or-is-not-sufficiently/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/the-most-effective-and-most-accessible-way-to-acquire-the-maximum-of/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/any-organized-social-group-is-always-a-stratified-social-body-there/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/the-resort-to-human-flesh-often-after-months-of-ever-increasing/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/are-there-quantitative-aspects-to-the-phenomena-of-war-that-can-be/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

> [ \[In-group exclusivism has\] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pitirim-sorokin/in-group-exclusivism-has-killed-more-human-beings-and-destroyed-more/)

[Pitirim Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pitirim-sorokin/)

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