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Pitirim Sorokin

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Pitirim Sorokin was a Russian sociologist and anthropologist who made significant contributions to the field of sociology. He is known for his work on social structure, social change, and cultural evolution. Sorokin's theories have had a lasting impact on the study of sociology and have influenced various sociological theories.

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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.”

Doe Body Social Groups Equal Members Permanent Organized Flats Social Groups

Book:Social Mobility

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

Book:Social and Cultural Dynamics: Fluctuation of social relationships, war, and revolution

Source: Social and Cultural Dynamics: Fluctuation of social relationships, war, and revolution

“The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.”

Humans Emotional Months Hunger Painful Flesh Reactions Resorts Without Pain

Author:Pitirim Sorokin

“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.”

Form Strong Conscious Connected Intellect Factors Phenomenon Sublime Positively

Author: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.”

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Book:The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

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

Men Genius Conscious Creator Rational Thinker

Author: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.”

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

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

Way Acquire Maximum Constructive

Book:The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

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

Love War Hate Principles Violence And Love Hypocrisy Inspirational Love Begets Regularity Insincere Powerful Love

Book:The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

“Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.”

Love Whole Values Humanity Love Is Moral Supreme Ethical Integrated Moral Values

Author:Pitirim Sorokin

About the Author

Born: January 21, 1889
Died: February 11, 1968
Known for: Political figure
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