Emile Durkheim Quotes

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Emile Durkheim

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Walter Scott
- Men
- Power
- Help
I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

Dane Cook
- Long
- Real
- Know
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Taslima Nasrin
- Men
- Women
- Nature
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

J. Irwin Miller
- Long
- Business
- Financial
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Lactantius
- Men
- Father
- Beginning
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

J. C. Chandor
- Long
- Way
- Film