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Society 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.…
- Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The…
- 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…
- The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It…
- 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…
- If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
- A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations…
- The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath…
- Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of…
- There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights.…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi