When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.