Quotes by Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich

And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don’t entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.

Being Yourself

Men

Thinking

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as ‘race,’ ‘class,’ ‘nation,’ and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

Memories

Race

Years

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.

Breathing

Emotional

Patterns

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

Arbitrary

Frustration

Needs

Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.

Cripples

Fascism

Frenzy

For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.

Lonely

Taken

Teaching

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life’s pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Pilots

Pioneers

Two Sides

I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one’s love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call “God” actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.

Christian

Honesty

Religious

In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. . . The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.

Anxiety

Goal

Order

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

Average

Character

Reactions

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Breathing

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Character

Christian

Community

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Democracy

Discovery

Doe

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Energy

Facts

Fascism

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Fighting

Fire

Firsts

Flow

Freedom

Frenzy

Frustration

Genius

Goal

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Honesty

Humanity

Humans

Intellectual

Interest

Law

Leader

Life

Lonely

Long

Love

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Quotes by Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich

And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don’t entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.

For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life’s pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

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