Emile Durkheim Quotes

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

The individual in physical science is nothing; in human science everything.

Everyone's an individual and individuality is such a strong thing in our society so that translates into wrestling.

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

we are unique individuals with unique experiences

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

We're all separate and individual people.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

People don't seem to be able to pigeonhole me yet, which is great.

While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual

Nowadays, individual style isn't just much more understood, but much more appreciated; that there's not one forced look that we're all supposed to adhere to, and everyone can find their place that way.