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title: "3 Rigidity Quotes By Wilhelm Reich"
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> [The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive.…](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/)

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> [“Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/wilhelm-reich-identified-armor-as-the-sum-total-of-typical-character/)

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

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> [Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/every-muscular-rigidity-contains-the-history-and-the-meaning-of-its/)

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

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## Other authors on Rigidity

## 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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