Wilhelm Reich Quotes
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.
Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.
Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.
And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express
Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.
The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.
I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.
The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.
Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.
The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.