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Quotation from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
“In reality there is no such thing as "eradicating" evil”
Reflections on War and Death, Part I, 'The Disappointments of War', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918)
Freud rejects the assumption that education uproots evil inclinations, introducing his claim that primitive impulses are only transformed and can return.
Citation: "In reality there is no such thing as "eradicating" evil" — Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death, Part I, 'The Disappointments of War', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918). (id freud-reflections-on-war-and-death-q2)
