Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (1889-01-21 – 1968-02-11) was a Russian-born American sociologist.

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• 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.
  • Social Mobility (1927), p. 12

• Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.
  • The Ways and Power of Love (1954), p. xi

• Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.
  • The Ways and Power of Love (1954), p. xi

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