Ethical Quote 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.”

Pitirim Sorokin

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

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The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

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

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[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…

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