...Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.

Émile Durkheim


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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Émile Durkheim

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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

Émile Durkheim

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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Émile Durkheim

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Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;

Émile Durkheim

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Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

Émile Durkheim

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It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

Émile Durkheim

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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Émile Durkheim

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Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Émile Durkheim

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Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Émile Durkheim


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