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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 lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud
Civilization
Existence
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud
Children
Needs
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
Being
Exercise
Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud
Destiny
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud
Ego
Freedom
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud
Home
Nothing
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
Success
America
World
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
Mistake
America
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Man
World
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
Emotions
Flowers
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud
Neurosis
Value
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud
Act
Disgrace
State
Violence
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
Time
Civilization
First
Word
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
Life
Mother
Favorite
Feeling
Man
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud
Ego
Fact