Pitirim Sorokin quotes

Pitirim Sorokin was a Russian-American sociologist, best known for his pioneering work on social stratification, social mobility, and cultural dynamics. His research explored the cyclical nature of social change and the interplay between culture, ethics, and society. He made significant contributions to the development of sociology as an academic discipline. Here are 12 of his quotes:

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

Pitirim Sorokin

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

Pitirim Sorokin

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

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

Pitirim Sorokin

[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

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

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

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

Pitirim Sorokin

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

Pitirim Sorokin

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