Anxiety Quote by Wilhelm Reich

“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens…

— Salman Rushdie

“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the authoritarian family…

— Wilhelm Reich

The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual…

— Scott Lively

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will…

— Michel Foucault

“To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together…

— William Rotsler

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

— Betty Dodson

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

— Alexander Cockburn

“Because sex has been condemned and suppressed, ‘it has become an obsession, a disease, a perversion’, says the Acharya, and advises us to ‘accept…

— Khushwant Singh

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with…

— Aleister Crowley

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being.…

— Harry Belafonte

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

— Andre Gide

“There is a known correlation between denial of one’s sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.”

— Peter Tatchell