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> [The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-working-masses-of-men-and-women-they-and-they-alone-are/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-character-structure-of-modern-man-who-reproduces-a-six-thousand/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

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## Other authors on Craving

## More by Wilhelm Reich

> [The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-question-of-how-and-why-the-encrustations-and-rigidifications-of/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [“Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic formations. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/saw-a-film-on-cancer-yesterday-shown-by-the-english-delegation-no/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [“All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/all-human-philosophy-is-riddled-with-the-nightmare-of-searching-in/)

[wilhelm reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/i-know-that-what-you-call-god-really-exists-but-not-in-the-form-you/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [People should be \_very\_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/people-should-be-very-careful-when-choosing-the-future-fathers-and/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [“Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psychological interpretation, to attribute to it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/gradually-it-became-clear-that-it-is-a-fundamental-error-to-try-to/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/mistaking-insolence-for-freedom-has-always-been-the-hallmark-of-the/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/build-your-house-on-granite-by-granite-i-mean-your-nature-that-you/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-vital-energies-regulate-themselves-naturally-without-compulsive/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/you-ll-have-a-good-secure-life-when-being-alive-means-more-to-you/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-suppression-of-natural-sexual-gratification-leads-to-various/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-cry-for-freedom-is-a-sign-of-suppression-it-will-not-cease-to/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [“Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/race-theorists-who-are-as-old-as-imperialism-itself-want-to-achieve/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/you-yourself-create-all-your-misery-hour-after-hour-day-after-day-you/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

> [“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/i-want-you-to-stop-being-subhuman-and-become-yourself-yourself-i-say/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

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