"Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community all th…"

"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 individual is merely a reflection of society."

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

"The fundamental categories of thought are of social origin."