9 Quotes by Pitirim Sorokin

When a society dispenses with God, with the Absolute, and rejects all the binding moral imperatives, the only binding power that remains is sheer physical force itself.

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

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.