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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.
Wilhelm Reich
Football, Average, Psychics

The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself
captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same
thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which
create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all
cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have
attained genuine freedom.
Wilhelm Reich
Freedom, Men, Order

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic
energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside
of you.
Wilhelm Reich
Integrity, Thinking, Perception

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Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings
of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church,
by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses,
confirms this concept.
Wilhelm Reich
Mean, Fighting, Feelings

You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine
or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security;
love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking
will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than
the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a
marriage license.
Wilhelm Reich
Life, Teacher, Children

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse
of the authoritarian ideology
Wilhelm Reich
Mean, Ideology, Collapse

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.
Wilhelm Reich
Emotional, Breathing, Patterns

It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.
Wilhelm Reich
Thinking, Feelings, Energy

Love is the absence of Anxiety.

Wilhelm Reich
Love Is, Anxiety, Absence

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The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal

authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature and against
the social misery which surrounds him. This characterolgical armoring of the character is the basis
of isolation, indigence, craving for authority, fear of responsibility, mystic longing, sexual misery,
and neurotically impotent rebelliousness.
Wilhelm Reich
Character, Responsibility, Men

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic
destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich
Life, Natural, Sadistic

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
Wilhelm Reich
Character, Average, Form

There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law,
Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the
knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to
somebody who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good old
rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly
existence.
Wilhelm Reich
Law, Understanding, Ignorant

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.
Wilhelm Reich
Frustration, Arbitrary, Needs

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich
Life, Spring, Should

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that
every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by
opinions about work.
Wilhelm Reich
Men, World, Want

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Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions
must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political
slogan.
Wilhelm Reich
Freedom, Mean, Men

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he
create genuine culture.
Wilhelm Reich
Men, Animal, Culture

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms
the basis of the general fear of life.
Wilhelm Reich
Anxiety, Pleasure, Form

Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in
sociological disputes leads me to expect that a great many people will take offense at the
disclosure of this miscalculation. It makes the highest demands on people's will to veracity; it puts
a heavy burden on everyday living; it places all social responsibility on those who work , be it in
the factory, in the office, on the farm, in the laboratory, or wherever.
Wilhelm Reich
Responsibility, Long, People

You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the
means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every
step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have
proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you
vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.
Wilhelm Reich
Mean, Thinking, Goal

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but
hasn't the courage to express
Wilhelm Reich
Lying, Individual, Feels

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was
a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in
his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned
better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great
man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.
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Wilhelm Reich
Men, Thinking, Important

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.
Wilhelm Reich
Reality, Thinking, Law

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still
mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to
such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your
love.
Wilhelm Reich
Memories, Race, Years

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Wilhelm Reich

Born: March 24, 1897

Died: November 3, 1957
Occupation: Psychoanalyst
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