"Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent so…"

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

"Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected …"

"[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hu…"

"The organism of the Western society and culture seems to be undergoing one of the deepest and most significant crises…"

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

"Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love create…"

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

"Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, …"

"Pitirim A. Sorokin was born in 1889 in Komi (province in Northern Russia) into a peasant family. During his early chi…"