"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society." ― Charles Horton Cooley Topic(s): Society More From 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." "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." More In Society "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."― Angela Davis "If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we’d have a better society."― Jeb Bush "In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint."― Jonathan Sacks