Sigismund Schlomo "Sigmund" Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist. He invented psychoanalysis and developed influential theories about the unconscious, libido, id, ego, and superego.
Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved...; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness.
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice--that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favor of an individual.
The inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man, and…it constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
