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

"The stronger the collective conscience, the less room there is for individual variation."

"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…"

"Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss."

"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…"