"There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it."

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Source : John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

Emile Durkheim

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“There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.”

Source : "Christie lambasts House Republicans over Sandy bill: 'Shame on Congress'" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
“The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.
“My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.”
“Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.”
“These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.”
“People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.”

Source : "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judith Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.
“And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan”

Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.38, Penguin

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