"Imagine a being liberated from all external restraint, a despot still more absolute than those of which history tells us, a despot that no external power can restrain or influence. By definition, the desires of such a being are irresistible. Shall we say, then, that he is all-powerful? Certainly not, since he himself cannot resist his desires. They are masters of him, as of everything else... One cannot be master of himself when he has within him forces that, by definition cannot be mastered"
-Emile Durkheim from Spirit of Discipline
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