Emile Durkheim — "Moral rules are not arbitrary decrees, but conditions of social life."

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

"The first rule of sociology is to treat social facts as things."

"Social facts are ways of acting, thinking, and feeling, external to the individual, and endowed with a power of coercion by reason of which they control him."

"The future of society depends on the moral education of its children."

"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…"