Social Organization Quotes

“To get away from one's working environment is; in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”
― Charles Horton Cooley, Social organization; a study of the larger mind

“The unhappiness of men, maintained by Socrates, depends upon their badness being brought home to them in conscience. If, because of their insensibility or lack of proper reproof, the error of their way is not impressed upon them, they have no motive to reform. The fact that the evil-doer has become such gradually, and does not realize the evil in him, is no reason why we should not blame him; it is the function of blame to make him and others realize it, to define evil-doer when he is dead, or has sincerely and openly repented, not while he remains a force for wrong.”
― Charles H. Cooley, Social Organization by Charles H. Cooley

“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.”
― Charles H. Cooley, Social Organization by Charles H. Cooley