"Crime is normal because a society exempt from it is utterly impossible."

"The primary function of religion is to maintain social cohesion."

"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 neces…"

"Individual consciousness is only a part of the collective consciousness."

"Every time a social phenomenon is directly explained by a psychological phenomenon, we may rest assured that the explanation is false."