Émile Durkheim - Condemn Quotes

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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Émile Durkheim

Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

Émile Durkheim

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Émile Durkheim