"We do not condemn it because it is……" — Emile Durkheim

"We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it."

— Emile Durkheim

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64 Quotes by Emile Durkheim

Emile Durkheim has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint;…
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which…
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…
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed…
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment…
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to…
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. — Georges Bernanos
Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking… — David Cameron
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. — Albert Camus
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as… — Richard Carmona
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our… — Jimmy Carter
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize… — Deepak Chopra
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before… — Huldrych Zwingli
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of… — Gene Roddenberry
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive… — Lionel Trilling
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which… — Emile Durkheim
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. — Georg Groddeck

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