Civilization Quote by Sigmund Freud

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

— Sigmund Freud

“The price of happiness is the risk of losing it.”

— Richard Paul Evans

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

— Cornelia Funke

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

— Paulo Coelho

We become happier, much happier, when we realize life is an opportunity rather than an obligation.

— Anonymous

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more…

— Tony Hsieh

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting…

— Patrick Dixon

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

— Anita Roddick

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or…

— Jean Liedloff

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

— Isabelle Holland