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Human behavior Quotes

"Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world."

"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality"

"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing, one that sounds good, and a real one"

"The healthy man does not torture others generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers"

"Religion is like a knife: you can use it to cut bread, or you can use it to stab somebody in the back."

"The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct."

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

"People with opinions just go around bothering each other."

"Public apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There’s more of it."

"The healthy man does not torture others, generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers"

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls"

"The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it."

"The problem with religion, well among other problems, is that it's the only way where you can get people – good people – to do immoral things."

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor"

"For good people to do evil things, it takes religion"

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