Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton CooleyThere is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Charles Horton CooleyFreedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.
Charles Horton CooleyThe idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.
Charles Horton Cooley