Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality i >>

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses >>

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civ >>

Quotations about Greed

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. >>

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. >>

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. >>

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Durkheim, Emile