"The primary function of religion is to maintain social cohesion."

"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."

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

"While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another lik…"

"Individual consciousness is only a part of the collective consciousness."