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

“Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic…

— Wilhelm Reich

“All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain.”

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

— Wilhelm Reich

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psychological interpretation, to attribute…

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— 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…

— 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

“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more…

— 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 cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive.…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of…

— 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

“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's…

— Wilhelm Reich

“In real man, the “god-given” genital embrace has turned into the pornographic 4-lettering male-female intercourse.”

— 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

“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

For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished…

— Wilhelm Reich

And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in…

— Wilhelm Reich

“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

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

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Wilhelm Reich

“The [character-]armored, mechanistically rigid person thinks mechanistically, produces mechanistic tools, and forms a mechanistic conception of nature. The armored person who feels…

— Wilhelm Reich

“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to…

— Wilhelm Reich