"The division of labor is not merely an economic phenomenon, but a moral one."

"Every time a social phenomenon is directly explained by a psychological phenomenon, we may rest assured that the explanation is false."

"The primary cause of suicide is an excess or deficit of social integration."

"The first rule of sociology is to treat social facts as things."

"Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss."