Men Have Been Obliged To

Man Is A Moral Being, Only Because He Lives In Society. Let All Social Life Disappear And Morality Will Disappear With It.

If One Class Of Society Is Obliged, In Order To Live, To Take Any Price For Its Services, While Another Can Abstain From Such Action Thanks To Resources At Its Disposal Which, However, Are Not Necessarily Due To Any Social Superiority, The Second Has An Unjust Advantage Over The First At Law. In Other Words, There Cannot Be Rich And Poor A Birth Without There Being Unjust Contracts.

The First And Most Basic Rule Is To Consider Social Facts As Things.

This Solidarity Can Grow Only In Inverse Ratio To Personality... Solidarity Which Comes From Likenesses Is At Its Maximum When The Collective Conscience Completely Envelops Our Whole Conscience And Coincides In All Points With It... When This Solidarity Exercises Its Force, Our Personality Vanishes, As Our Definition Permits Us To Say, For We Are No Longer Ourselves, But The Collective Life.

Religious Phenomena Are Naturally Arranged In Two Fundamental Categories: Beliefs And Rites. The First Are States Of Opinion, And Consist In Representations; The Second Are Determined Modes Of Action.