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Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

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.

Charles Horton Cooley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1866 - 1928

Topics

Freedom Government Wrong Human Need

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

Jennifer Ellison

Dance Act Sing Just Wanted Perform

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

Nature Sea Sky Mountain Woods Learn

I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

John Lydon

Good Car Music Hate Listening Back

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Anna Kendrick

New York Society New Run High Show

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Brainy See Things Them

Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers.

Steve Jurvetson

Good Service Lose Way Customers

When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'

Tony Dungy

American Look Say Boy Coach Head

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

Tom Guiry

Time Luck Learn You Place Right

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

Michelle Dean

Woman Aggressive She Praised Coarse

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Joseph Brodsky

Good Style Speed Always Precision

When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature of the editor-in-chief and the fashion people, so they didn't really adore me.

William Klein

People Me Collaboration Fashion End

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

William Osler

Medical Know Important More Patient