Charles Horton Cooley Quotes about Freedom

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Charles Horton Cooley

Freedom, Men, Soul

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.188, Transaction Publishers

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Charles Horton Cooley

Freedom, Causes, Increase

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.433, Transaction Publishers

Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.

Charles Horton Cooley

Children, Freedom, Fall

Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P