"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
-Sigmund Freud
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.“
-Sigmund Freud
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
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"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."
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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