Stephen Marson

“It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions.”
― Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”
― Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.”
― Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology