Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. (Noam Chomsky)

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Noam Chomsky

Related topics

aggression common concealment death genitals people sense means things

Related quotes

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. View quote
Iain Banks
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense. View quote
Daryl Hannah
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. View quote
Harry S. Truman