"The state is the very organ of social thought."

"Social facts are ways of acting, thinking, and feeling, external to the individual, and endowed with a power of coercion by reason of which they control him."

"The abnormal is not necessarily the pathological."

"The future of society depends on the moral education of its children."

"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…"