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Émile Durkheim

“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”

Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology
tags: 1897, anomie, freedom
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Émile Durkheim
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