Sigmund Freud

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.