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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.


Sigmund Freud

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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
GREG BOYLE Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
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SIGMUND FREUD Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be...
SIGMUND FREUD Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way...
SIGMUND FREUD The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b...
SIGMUND FREUD He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
SIGMUND FREUD Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an...
SIGMUND FREUD Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled t...
SIGMUND FREUD The fetish is a substitute for the mother's penis that the little boy had once believed in and does ...
SIGMUND FREUD O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.
SIGMUND FREUD When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment;...
SIGMUND FREUD My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
SIGMUND FREUD ...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert...
SIGMUND FREUD .It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...
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