Our Whole Social Environment Seems To Us

There Is No Sociology Worthy Of The Name Which Does Not Possess A Historical Character.

Socialism Is Not A Science, A Sociology In Miniature: It Is A Cry Of Pain.

We Do Not Condemn It Because It Is A Crime, But It Is A Crime Because We Condemn It.

While The State Becomes Inflated And Hypertrophied In Order To Obtain A Firm Enough Grip Upon Individuals, But Without Succeeding, The Latter, Without Mutual Relationships, Tumble Over One Another Like So Many Liquid Molecules, Encountering No Central Energy To Retain, Fix And Organize Them.

A Social Fact Is Every Way Of Acting, Fixed Or Not, Capable Of Exercising On The Individual An External Constraint; Or Again, Every Way Of Acting Which Is General Throughout A Given Society, While At The Same Time Existing In Its Own Right Independent Of Its Individual Manifestations.