It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
Emile DurkheimToo cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
Emile DurkheimAt first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
Emile DurkheimWhen mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
Emile DurkheimThere 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 necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.
Emile Durkheim