Pitirim Sorokin Professions : Political figure Born : January 21, 1889 Died : February 11, 1968 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Pitirim Sorokin Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. Pitirim Sorokin hate love war 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 education love war [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 epidemics taken earthquakes The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely. Pitirim Sorokin constructive maximum way 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 moral humanity love 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 groups body doe 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 emotional months flesh Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. Pitirim Sorokin genius conscious men 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 sublime strong conscious Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently! Pitirim Sorokin aspect war Similar Authors Bilawal Bhutto Zardari political-figure Burhan Ghalioun political-figure Ashraf Dehghani political-figure Anita Dunn political-figure Anacharsis Cloots political-figure Bob Avakian political-figure All Authors
