Human Behavior Quotes

"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" "To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet" "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious" "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." "Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries." "People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their sili" "To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved." "People with opinions just go around bothering each other." "He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." "Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions." "The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct." "One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse." "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." "The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it." "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose" "Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world." "The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions." "The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling."