“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
Sigmund Freud
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.”
“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 human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“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.”
