Quote by: Emile Durkheim

Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves.


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Author Bio


  • NameEmile Durkheim
  • Description1858-1917, French sociologist
  • AliasesEmile Durkheim
  • BornApril 15, 1858
  • DiedNovember 15, 1917
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Philosopher; Sociologist