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Pitirim Sorokin
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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 (1889–1968) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pitirim Sorokin (1927) Social Mobility, p. 12
“Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!”
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pitirim Sorokin (1937) Social and Cultural Dynamics. p. 283
“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 (1889–1968) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pitirim Sorokin (1942) Man and Society in Calamity. E. P. Dutton. p. 66; as cited in: Lewis Petrinovich (2000) The cannibal within. p. 177
“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 (1889–1968) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pitirim Sorokin (1948) The Reconstruction of Humanity. Beacon Press p. 330
“[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 taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.”
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pitirim Sorokin (1954) The Ways and Power of Love. p. 461; As cited in: what-when-how: In Depth Tutorials and Information, sv Altruistic Love
“The organism of the Western society and culture seems to be undergoing one of the deepest and most significant crises of its life. The crisis is far greater than the ordinary; its depth is unfathomable, its end not yet in sight, and the whole of the Western society is involved in it. It is the crisis of a Sensate culture, now in its overripe stage, the culture that has dominated the Western World during the last five centuries. It is also the crisis of a contractual (capitalistic) society associated with it. In this sense we are experiencing one of the sharpest turns in the historical road.”
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pitirim Sorokin (1957) Social and Cultural Dynamics , p. 622; as cited in: "Culture in Crisis: The Visionary Theories of Pitirim Sorokin." Satyagraha – Cultural Psychology, Aug. 19, 2010
“Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.”
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pitirim Sorokin (1964) The basic trends of our times, p. 39
“Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.”
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.”
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.”
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source