Wilhelm Reich

“Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.”

— Wilhelm Reich

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

— Wilhelm Reich

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create…

— Wilhelm Reich

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

— Wilhelm Reich

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Wilhelm Reich

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

— Wilhelm Reich

“Never force anything, just let it be natural, and it will always be okay. Okay?”

— Wilhelm Reich

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm…

— Wilhelm Reich

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be…

— Wilhelm Reich

The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then…

— Wilhelm Reich

The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered…

— Wilhelm Reich

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into…

— Wilhelm Reich

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Wilhelm Reich

You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual…

— Wilhelm Reich

In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who…

— Wilhelm Reich

“ Without the power to put them into practice, truths are of no use. They remain academic. Power, no matter what kind…

— Wilhelm Reich

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very…

— Wilhelm Reich

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two…

— Wilhelm Reich

“The word fascism is not a word of abuse any more than the word capitalism is. It is a concept denoting a…

— Wilhelm Reich

Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living…

— Wilhelm Reich

“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of…

— Wilhelm Reich

“I consider it an error in scientific communication that, most of the time, merely the polished and flawless results of natural research…

— Wilhelm Reich

“I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts…

— Wilhelm Reich

“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of…

— Wilhelm Reich

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when…

— Wilhelm Reich

I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Hitler prometeu a supremacia do homem. As mulheres seriam relegadas para o plano da casa e da cozinha; ser-lhes-ia negada a possibilidade…

— Wilhelm Reich

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Wilhelm Reich

The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.

— Wilhelm Reich

“I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure." ”

— Wilhelm Reich

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

— Wilhelm Reich

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially…

— Wilhelm Reich

Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid…

— Wilhelm Reich

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

— Wilhelm Reich