Quotes By Sigmund Freud

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

If youth knew; if age could.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

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.