Emile Durkheim — "The cult of the individual is a form of idolatry."

"Society needs crime, because crime is an integral part of all healthy societies."

"A passion for the infinite is daily presented as a sign of moral distinction, when in fact it can only occur in disturbed minds which accord the status of a norm to the very disturbance from which the…"

"The more a society is integrated, the less it will experience suicide."

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

"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."