Aggression Quote by Sigmund Freud Download Open image “The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.” — Sigmund Freud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aggression Civilization Impediments Inclination
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The commandment, 'Love thy neighbour as thyself', is the strongest defence against human aggressiveness and an excellent example of the unpsychological [expectations] of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt… — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Boxing can be so important to young people, it keeps you off the street and you can channel your energy and aggression in the… — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
“That which is of great value cannot be attained through aggression. You will be able to find the mystery of life only if you… — Osho Copy Share Image
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I can remember watching MTV Cribs - these amazing houses - and looking around my house where there was no carpet on the floors.… — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I really like battle ropes. They're so versatile; you can get a terrific workout doing a ton of different exercises with them. My clients… — Gunnar Peterson Copy Share Image
Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield… — Empress Dowager Cixi Copy Share Image