1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Sorokin Quotes

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian-born American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. January 1889 – 10. February 1968
Pitirim Sorokin photo
Pitirim Sorokin: 10 quotes4 likes

Famous Pitirim Sorokin Quotes

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

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Sorokin (1937) Social and Cultural Dynamics http://books.google.nl/books?id=fbZyka2W_1cC. p. 283

“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

Pitirim Sorokin (1927) Social Mobility, p. 12

“Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.”

Pitirim Sorokin

Source: The Ways and Power of Love (1954), p. xi

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

Pitirim Sorokin

Source: The Ways and Power of Love (1954), p. xi

“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

Pitirim Sorokin (1942) Man and Society in Calamity http://books.google.nl/books?id=KackGHJUko8C. E. P. Dutton. p. 66; as cited in: Lewis Petrinovich (2000) The cannibal within. p. 177

“[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

Pitirim Sorokin (1954) http://books.google.nl/books?id=DGCleCxTkbIC The Ways and Power of Love http://what-when-how.com/love-in-world-religions/altruistic-love/. p. 461; As cited in: "[ Altruistic Love]" on what-when-how: In Depth Tutorials and Information

Pitirim Sorokin Quotes

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

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Sorokin (1964) The basic trends of our times http://books.google.nl/books?id=SXrO4qCbmMIC, p. 39

“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

Pitirim Sorokin (1957) Social and Cultural Dynamics http://books.google.nl/books?id=fbZyka2W_1cC , p. 622; as cited in: " Culture in Crisis: The Visionary Theories of Pitirim Sorokin http://satyagraha.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/pitirim-sorkin-crisis-of-modernity/." Satyagraha – Cultural Psychology, Aug. 19, 2010

“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

, p. xii
The Ways and Power of Love (1954)

“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

Pitirim Sorokin (1948) The Reconstruction of Humanity http://books.google.nl/books?id=NNq2AAAAIAAJ. Beacon Press p. 330

Similar authors

Herbert A. Simon photo
Herbert A. Simon58
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and p… None
Max Weber photo
Max Weber41
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist None
Theodor W. Adorno photo
Theodor W. Adorno90
German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for … None
Gunnar Myrdal photo
Gunnar Myrdal26
Swedish economist None
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk photo
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk9
First Czechoslovak president None
Erich Fromm photo
Erich Fromm117
German social psychologist and psychoanalyst None
Ludwig von Mises photo
Ludwig von Mises62
austrian economist None
Antonio Gramsci photo
Antonio Gramsci22
Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu… None
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada photo
Toni Morrison photo
Toni Morrison184
American writer None