Emile Durkheim — "There is no society known where suicide does not occur."

"If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion."

"The normal is that which is most frequent."

"The individual is merely a receptacle for social forces."

"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."

"From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comp…"