Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he s…

Emile Durkheim
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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him. ✨ Emile Durkheim (2005). Suicide: A Study in Sociology, p.357, Routledge
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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him. ✨ Emile Durkheim (2005). Suicide: A Study in Sociology, p.357, Routledge

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