Pitirim Sorokin: Quotes about war

Pitirim Sorokin was American sociologist. Explore interesting quotes on war.

Pitirim Sorokin: 20 quotes 4 likes

“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

War

“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

Love , Hate , 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

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

Love , War , Education , School