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“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”

Charles Horton Cooley · Art

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Charles Horton Cooley

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.

Freedom

Charles Horton Cooley

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Society

Charles Horton Cooley

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.

Imagination

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.

Travel