Wilhelm Reich Quotes

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or Amer...

Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migr...

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. Sexual d...

The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in v...

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but has...

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each oth...

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natura...

The [character-]armored, mechanistically rigid person thinks mechanistically, produces mechanistic t...

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this w...

I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t li...

I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has t...

What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of...

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise me...

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This te...

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeg...

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...

Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently ...

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human...

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

Work democracy cannot be imposed on people as a political system. It depends on the consciousness on...

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love lif...

In terms of "quiet" bourgeois democracy two fundamental possibilities are open to the industrial wor...

This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual con...

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself...

In the early stages the sexual needs will have the upper hand, in later stages the compulsive morali...

The existence of strict moral principles has invariablysignified that the biological, and specifical...

The institution of marriage would be damaged. Ideologically, marital morality must be kept intact, i...

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ...

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individua...

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions m...

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destr...

Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love...

The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is res...

It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which u...

Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic...

Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and...

Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose...

The reactionary of any kind condemns sexual pleasure because it stimulates and repulses him at the s...