“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
Sigmund Freud
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another”
“One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.”
“...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.”
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
