Emile Durkheim Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Groups, Causes

  Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

• Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Morality, Social

• The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

  Emile Durkheim

  Art, Political, Sound

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

• 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 necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Organization, People, Different

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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

  Emile Durkheim

  Cheerful, Morality, Found

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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