“Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.” MenSocialMoralMoralityDisappearSocial Life Author:Emile Durkheim
“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. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.” MenSocialCausesMoralGroupsHuman NatureObjectsMoralitySolidarityVarySocial LifeMoral Life Book:The Division of Labor in Society Source: The Division of Labor in Society
“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 daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.” PeopleDifferentFormFoundSocialKnownConditionsCrimeMoralityUnderstoodOrganizationFundamentalsCriminalitySocial Organization Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.” FoundMoralityAppropriateCheerful Book:Suicide: A Study in Sociology Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“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 this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.” ArtPoliticalLife IsSocialSoundRolesEnvironmentMoralityDemandBuiltCosmicOrgansExhaustionSocial Environment Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
