At First Sight, One Does Not See

Man's Characteristic Privilege Is That The Bond He Accepts Is Not Physical But Moral; That Is, Social. He Is Governed Not By A Material Environment Brutally Imposed On Him, But By A Conscience Superior To His Own, The Superiority Of Which He Feels. Because The Greater, Better Part Of His Existence Transcends The Body, He Escapes The Body's Yoke, But Is Subject To That Of Society.

To Pursue A Goal Which Is By Definition Unattainable Is To Condemn Oneself To A State Of Perpetual Unhappiness.

When Morals Are Sufficient, Law Is Unnecessary; When Morals Are Insufficient, Law Is Unenforceable.

This Solidarity Can Grow Only In Inverse Ratio To Personality... Solidarity Which Comes From Likenesses Is At Its Maximum When The Collective Conscience Completely Envelops Our Whole Conscience And Coincides In All Points With It... When This Solidarity Exercises Its Force, Our Personality Vanishes, As Our Definition Permits Us To Say, For We Are No Longer Ourselves, But The Collective Life.

A Society Whose Members Are United By The Fact That They Think In The Same Way In Regard To The Sacred World And Its Relations With The Profane World, And By The Fact That They Translate These Common Ideas Into Common Practices, Is What Is Called A Church. In All History, We Do Not Find A Single Religion Without A Church.