Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
More Quotes from Sigmund Freud:
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.
Sigmund Freud
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
Sigmund Freud
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity
Sigmund Freud
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
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 nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know the work of Eros is precisely this.
Sigmund Freud
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Anger Quotes, Society & Civilization QuotesWe're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
Byron White
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Spiro T. Agnew