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 CooleyThe literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton CooleyEach man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
Charles Horton CooleyThe imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Charles Horton Cooley