The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the...#Charles Horton Cooley
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.#Charles Horton Cooley
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through...#Charles Horton Cooley
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of...#Charles Horton Cooley
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which...#Charles Horton Cooley
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.#Charles Horton Cooley
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than...#Charles Horton Cooley
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression...#Charles Horton Cooley
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes...#Charles Horton Cooley