Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
Emile Durkheim.
“Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.”
“It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.”
“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 e...”
“Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires th...”
“A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these comm...”
“If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.”
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
“But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.”
“Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of ...”