„Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.“

— Sigmund Freud

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„There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.“
— Ptolemy
„We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.“
— Barack Obama
„A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society“
— Emil M. Cioran
„In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.“
— Ayn Rand
„Men exist for the sake of one another.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. … Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.“
— Ayn Rand
„I know only one Church: it is the society of men.“
— Jean Paul Sartre