The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

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

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

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.