French Sociologist Quotes

Émile Durkheim

Jacques Ellul

Michael Löwy

Power is a very difficult problem with which to deal in the theory of organization.

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

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.

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'.

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

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.