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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Sigmund Freud
Civilization, Intuition, Natural Instinct
Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.