It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human. (Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist))

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.

Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

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