Charles Horton Cooley

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of…

Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute…

If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression…

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one…

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also…

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes…

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society…

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God…

To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from…