Emile Durkheim — "The stronger the collective conscience, the less room there is for individual va…"

"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."

"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…"

"Education is the action exercised by the older generations upon those who are not yet ready for social life."

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

"Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them."