Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is mos >>

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

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain >>

Quotations about Society

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recyc >>

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people >>

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true s >>

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

Durkheim, Emile