If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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.
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.
Slogan-making is not poetry.
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues. "
I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.