"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
― Charles Horton Cooley
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― Charles Horton Cooley
More From Charles Horton Cooley
- "The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
- "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."
More In Freedom
- "Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."― John Stuart Mill
- "My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."― Nora Ephron
- "It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom."― Bryant H. McGill