Sigmund Freud Quotes

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

May we not look for Discontent, Mistrust, Disaffection to Government and frequent Insurrections?

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

The world today doesn't please me.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

Social stability is ensured, not by the cessation of the demand for change – for the needy and the restless will never cease to cry for it – but by the fact that change in its progress must at last hurt some class of men who are strong enough to arrest it.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

Scarcely a year now passes without an insurrection in some of their [China’s] provinces. It is true they are soon suppressed, but their frequency is a strong symptom of the fever within.