Emile Durkheim — "The greater the number of individuals who are isolated, the greater the number o…"

"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…"

"When a society is deeply divided, it tends to commit suicide collectively."

"Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too sa…"

"The ultimate source of all values is society itself."

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