Inhibition Quotes (4)

Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), 545.
See also:  |  Male (6)  |  Sex (25)  |  Wife (3)

One most necessary function of the brain is to exert an inhibitory power over the nerve centres that lie below it, just as man exercises a beneficial control over his fellow animals of a lower order of dignity; and the increased irregular activity of the lower centres surely betokens a degeneration: it is like the turbulent, aimless action of a democracy without a head.
The Physiology and Pathology of Mind (1868), 94.
See also:  |  Animal (57)  |  Brain (58)  |  Democracy (4)  |  Function (9)  |  Man (112)  |  Necessity (16)  |  Nerve (31)

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition."
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Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.
'The Enmity Between Generations and Its Probable Ethological Causes'. In Richard I. Evans, Konrad Lorenz: The Man and his Ideas (1975), 227.
See also:  |  Cabbage (2)  |  Cat (4)  |  Chimpanzee (3)  |  Danger (9)  |  Dog (6)  |  Fish (11)  |  Fly (9)  |  Kill (7)  |  Monkey (10)  |  Monster (3)  |  Suicide (8)

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