Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sor >>

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having con >>

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness witho >>

Quotations about Crime and Criminals

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when >>

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a >>

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. >>

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

Durkheim, Emile