Sigmund Freud Quotes About Homosexuality

Quotes about: Homosexuality

• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Sigmund Freud (1960). “Letters”

• It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Gay, Lgbt

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Plato, Believe, Book

• A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Vices, Heterosexuality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Vices, Degradation, Illness

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

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