Quotes by : Émile Durkheim

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness,....

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.....

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.....

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering it is nonetheless true....

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown....

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which....

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

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself....

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history,....