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
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much...#Charles Horton Cooley
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance...#Charles Horton Cooley
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise...#Charles Horton Cooley
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker;...#Charles Horton Cooley
