“People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.”
Sigmund Freud
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”
Wallace Stevens
“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”