When Mores Are Sufficient, Laws Are Unnecessary.

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.

A Social Fact Is Every Way Of Acting, Fixed Or Not, Capable Of Exercising On The Individual An External Constraint; Or Again, Every Way Of Acting Which Is General Throughout A Given Society, While At The Same Time Existing In Its Own Right Independent Of Its Individual Manifestations.

Faith Is Not Uprooted By Dialectic Proof; It Must Already Be Deeply Shaken By Other Causes To Be Unable To Withstand The Shock Of Argument.

The Roles Of Art, Morality, Religion, Political Faith, Science Itself Are Not To Repair Organic Exhaustion Nor To Provide Sound Functioning Of The Organs. All This Supraphysical Life Is Built And Expanded Not Because Of The Demands Of The Cosmic Environment But Because Of The Demands Of The Social Environment.

A Monomaniac Is A Sick Person Whose Mentality Is Perfectly Healthy In All Respects But One; He Has A Single Flaw, Clearly Localized. At Times, For Example, He Has An Unreasonable And Absurd Desire To Drink Or Steal Or Use Abusive Language; But All His Other Acts And All His Other Thoughts Are Strictly Correct.