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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its…
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The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,…
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs…
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
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Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a…
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the…
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
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The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is…
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
— Will Durant
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It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…
— Thomas Paine
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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very…
— Edmund Gosse
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Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living…
— Andrew Mellon
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Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of…
— Andrew Jackson
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his…
— J M Coetzee
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