Charles Horton Cooley Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Self, Giving, Feelings

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.167, University of Chicago Press

• By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Peace, Attitude, Giving

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.251, Transaction Publishers

• If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Hero, Self, Giving

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

• One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Blow, Men, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

• The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair play, of giving everyone a chance; and nothing arouses more general and active indignation among our people than the belief that some one or some class is not getting a fair chance.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Class, Play, Ideas

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