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Social Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of…
- Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.…
- The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
- Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,…
- 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…
- 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…
- If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action…
- The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All…
- Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him…
- Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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