Emile Durkheim Quotes

“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.”

— Edward Luce

“In the nineteenth century, one hundred years before a country called Qatar existed, Emile Durkheim, the French sociologist, wrote of “anomic suicide.”…

— Eric Weiner

“I’ve taken to long-distance walking as a means of dissolving the mechanised matrix which compresses the space-time continuum, and decouples human from…

— Will Self

“This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 that the establishment of…

— Gerhard Falk

“the elements of a modern creation myth are all around us. It is harmful because it contributes to the subtle but pervasive…

— David Christian