If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

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

Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.