The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ‘Americanize’ him. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
