It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.
ATTRIBUTION:
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, vol. 21, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1961). Civilization and Its Discontents, ch. 5 (1930).
