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
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. – Sigmund Freud
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man