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Humanity's power over nature has grown so great that people could now easily exterminate one another
Drawn from what Sigmund Freud said
What Sigmund Freud actually said
- Sigmund Freud Founder of psychoanalysis (1856 to 1939)
Men have brought their powers of subduing the forces of nature to such a pitch that by using them they could now very easily exterminate one another to the last man.
Where this was said
↗Civilization and Its Discontents (tr. Joan Riviere, 1930)gutenberg.org
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