"Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to."

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Source : Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

Emile Durkheim

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“And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.”

Source : "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 148), 2008.
“I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.”
“The world doesnâ€™t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than lifeâ€¦.every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understoodâ€¦. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. Whatâ€™s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.”
“However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.”

Source : "Ethical Ambition".
“It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's contributions have been less important than men's contributions because women are usually less public people.”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov
“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
“The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.”
“Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.”

Source : "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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