Charles Horton Cooley

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    We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    Every lover’s lament has an element of boasting.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)