Sigmund Freud Quotes

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

In the larger life of society, the people are made to submit to the orders of those who were originally meant to serve them—the government and its agents.

Where men have general rights, and are all guided, as it were, by one mind, it is certain that every individual has the less right the more the rest collectively exceed him in power

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

The strength of a people lies in their numbers.

Law has always served the purpose of condensing and defining the moral wishes and expectations of the community.

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.

When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.