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

- 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

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon gener…

- Pitirim Sorokin

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

- Pitirim Sorokin

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

- 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 exte…

- Pitirim Sorokin

[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthq…

- 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 i…

- Pitirim Sorokin

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

- Pitirim Sorokin