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Emile Durkheim

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

Autonomy, Distinguished, Environment, Relation
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics. . . The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.

Groups, Nothing, Quite, Reality, Takes, Thinking

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

Disappear, Let, Men, Morality, Social

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Condemn, Crime

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

Generations, Movement, Order, Reared, Successor

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Insufficient, Law, Laws, Unnecessary
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