Charles Horton Cooley
Books by Charles Horton Cooley
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Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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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.
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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.
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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
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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.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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