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Émile Durkheim
Jacques Ellul
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If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim
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When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

Jacques Ellul
Jacques Ellul
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For centuries, Catholic theology and popular tradition saw the poor as the earthly image of Christ's sufferings. As the theologian A. Bonnefous wrote in his book Le Chrestian charitable (1637), 'the poor man one helps is perhaps Jesus Christ himself'.

Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy
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Louis XVI: Is it a revolt?
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: No, Sire, it is a revolution.

After learning of the fall of the Bastille in 1789

François XII de La Rochefoucauld
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Power is a very difficult problem with which to deal in the theory of organization.

Michel Crozier
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All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.

Michel Quoist

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