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Civilization Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to…
- The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
- Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and…
- Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
- Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would…
- Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
- 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…
- No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern…
- Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
- A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a…
- It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
- The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
- We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
- The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
- Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
- Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to…
- Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,…
More Civilization Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce