Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.
Sociology founder
Explaining societal attitudes towards suicide as a reflection of broader social conditions. This can be disturbing as it implicates society in the phenomenon of suicide.
1897
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"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."
Humorous"The ultimate object of sociology is to discover the laws of social life."
Strange & Unusual"Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss."
Shocking"We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it."
Humorous"The sacred is the source of all moral authority."
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