List of Wilhelm Reich Quotes

People Should Be _very_ Careful When Choosing The Future Fathers And Mothers Of Their Children. For That Reason Alone, It Is Extremely Mean To Demand A Marriage Certificate For Life, Just For One Night Of Embracement.

I Observe To The Letter All Laws That Make Sense But Combat Those That Are Obsolete Or Absurd.

Your Liberators Tell You That That Your Suppressors Are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory The Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp Or Ford. And Your "liberators" Are Called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler And Stalin. I Tell You: "only You Yourself Can Be Your Liberator!"

The Elimination Of Individual Capitalists And The Replacement Of Private Capitalism By State Capitalism In Russia Has Not In The Least Altered The Typical Helpless And Authoritarian Character Structure Of The Masses Of People.

The Vital Energies Regulate Themselves Naturally Without Compulsive Duty Or Compulsive Morality Both Of Which Are Sure Signs Of Existing Antisocial Impulses.

It Is Obvious That The Fascist Mass Pestilence, With Its Background Of Thousands Of Years, Cannot Be Mastered With Social Measures Corresponding To The Past Three Hundred Years. The Discovery Of The Natural Biological Work Democracy In International Human Intercourse Is The Answer To Fascism. This Will Be No Less True Even If Not One Of The Living Sex-economists, Orgone Biophysicists Or Work Democrats Should Live To See Its General Functioning And Its Victory Over The Irrationalism In Social Life.

The Sexual Drive Is Nothing But The Motor Memory Of Previously Remembered Pleasure.

Work Democracy Does Not Wish To Prevent Or Prohibit Anything. Its Only Intention Is The Fulfilment Of The Biological Life Functions, Of Love, Work And Knowledge.

Because I'm A Man Who Works, Who Knows What A Human Being Is Like Inside, Who Knows That Every Human Being Has His Worth, And Who Wants The World To Be Governed By Work And Not By Opinions About Work.

How, Then,' I Hear You Ask, 'shall I Attain My End, Whether It Be Christian Love, Socialism, Or American Democracy?' Your Christian Love And Your Socialism And Your American Democracy Are What You Do Each Day, Your Manner Of Thinking Each Hour, Of Embracing Your Life Companion And Loving Your Child; They Are Your Attitude Of Social Responsibility Towards Your Work, And Your Determination Not To Become Like The Crushers Of Life You So Hate.

The Question Of How And Why The Encrustations And Rigidifications Of Human Emotional Life Are Brought About Led Directly Into The Realm Of Vegetative Life.

The Few Bad Poems Which Occasionally Are Created During Abstinence Are Of No Great Interest.