It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

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 comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.