“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.” — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“I was not surprised to find the poor were protesting the extravagant expense of the Moon landing back in the 1960’s.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours uselessly in sleep. When we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance?… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately… but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“ Ungratified sexuality is readily transformed into rage. "Prison explosions" are outbreaks of sadism resulting from the absence of sexual gratification. Hence,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“In truth, the epoch is gone in which we had the impression that the masses of society could be guided by reason… — William S. Schlamm Copy Share Image
“Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“So what is the answer? How can you stand your ground when you are weak and sensitive to pain, when people you… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Yet, it was precisely our failure to differentiate between work and politics, between reality and illusion; it was precisely our mistake of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Finally, we arrive at the question of the so-called nonpolitical man. Hitler not only established his power from the very beginning with… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“When, then, the Social Democrat worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to the status of a coolie, the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“From our experience of the past and our literature of the past we have derived a naïve faith in the power of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity. Can death be… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded… — James Blish Copy Share Image
“Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“ Without the power to put them into practice, truths are of no use. They remain academic. Power, no matter what kind… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“The word fascism is not a word of abuse any more than the word capitalism is. It is a concept denoting a… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the children of all patriarchal cultural circles… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“As bitter as it may be, the fact remains: It is the irresponsibleness of masses of people that lies at the basis… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this concept of "guilt," and of the guilty or… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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