Anomie Quote by David Christian

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

— David Christian

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

— Gerhard Falk

“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 physical geography.…

— Will Self

“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.” It’s what…

— Eric Weiner

“I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet. It's so strange here.”

— Sigbjørn Obstfelder

“I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of…

— Seneca

“A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He's an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, "I must be insane." What…

— Richard Linklater

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go…

— Stanley Kubrick

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and…

— Harlan Ellison

“Every human being needs a set of norms and rules, traditions and customs, transmitted from the older to the younger; without those norms, the…

— Tzvetan Todorov

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be…

— David W. Orr