"While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another lik…"

"The stronger the collective conscience, the less room there is for individual variation."

"Man is a moral being only because he lives in society."

"Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him."

"The true function of religion is not to make us think, but to make us act."