Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.