Civilization Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

— Sigmund Freud

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

— Sigmund Freud

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

— Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

— Sigmund Freud

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt…

— Sigmund Freud

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward…

— Sigmund Freud

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the…

— Sigmund Freud

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the…

— Sigmund Freud

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct…”

— Sigmund Freud

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

— Sigmund Freud

Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All…

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…

— Sigmund Freud

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is…

— Sigmund Freud

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not…

— Sigmund Freud

“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals,…

— Sigmund Freud

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best…

— Sigmund Freud

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to…

— Sigmund Freud

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that…

— Sigmund Freud

“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how…

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,…

— Sigmund Freud