“Freud was right in positing a death instinct, and the development of weapons of destruction makes our present dilemma plain: we either come to terms with our unconscious instincts and drives—with life and with death—or else we surely die.” — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.” — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
