Charles Horton Cooley

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ”

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ”

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. ”

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. ”

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ”

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

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. ”