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Emile Durkheim has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can…
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If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and…
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we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have…
— Amartya Sen
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It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for…
— Tom Brokaw
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The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of…
— Sean Patrick Maloney
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There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.
— Bob Menendez
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We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a…
— Barbara Lee
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We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation…
— Barack Obama
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All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.
— Unknown Author
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At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time…
— Stephen Rea
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Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not…
— George W. Bush
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