Quotes from Wilhelm Reich

social existence remains a dream only because the thoughts and feelings of the human animal are blocked off from the simple and obvious.

When social cooperation is disrupted, state power is always strengthened.

Fascism of the masses is nothing but disillusioned radicalism plus nationalistic philistinism

The fascist mentality is a mentality of the subjugated "little man" who craves authority and rebels against it at the same time

The institution of marriage would be damaged. Ideologically, marital morality must be kept intact, in spite of the contradictory facts of sexual life, because marriage is the backbone of the authoritarian family, which in turn is the breeding ground for authoritarian ideologies and character structure.

Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic experience is lacking. This was as true of the inquisitors of the medieval church, of the cruel and mystical Philip II of Spain, as it is of any modern mass murderer.

I'm afraid of you, little man, very much afraid, because the future of mankind depends on you. I'm afraid of you because your main aim in life is to escape--from yourself.

Önemli olan tek bir ?ey vard?r: Sak?ngan ve korkak kimselerin yürüdü?ü yoldan ba?ka bir yönü gösterse, seni sürüden ay?rsa bile, yüre?inden gelen sesi dinle. Ya?am, zaman zaman sana dayan?lmaz ac?lar verse de, küsme, kaba davranma ona kar??.

Politically, we are still stuck in the systems of thought of the Greek and Roman slave states, no matter how much we rant about "democracy.

A living being does not fire blindly without knowing at what he is shooting and for what reason. Life had to have died within those who did so. This was not changed by the fact that the machines moved spontaneously, mechanically. If these mechanical men did not exist there would be no war. But how did they work? What controlled their actions? Who created them and why? How could living beings degenerate thus?

To regard the economic process of a society as the essence of the bio-social process of the human animal's society is the same as equating the piece of ground and the house with the rearing of children, or of equating hygiene and work with dancing and music. But it was precisely this purely economic view of life (a view that Lenin had strongly opposed even in his time) that forced the Soviet Union to regress to an authoritarian form.

Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and less tangible form, in all strata of people. The degree of mystical, sentimental and sadistic feelings corresponds exactly to the degree of the disturbance of natural orgastic experience. Close observation of the audience of a trashy thriller or of a boxing match teaches more about these problems than a hundred handbooks of sexology.

Shalt's" and "shalt not's" will break in later in a most tragic fashion and murder Christ in every single child.

Most people are actually far less potent than they imagine themselves in their dreams, and are endowed with far greater qualities and capacities than they translate into action.

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

Bir ?eyi ne denli az anlarsan, o denli çok sayg? gösteriyor, onun kar??s?nda boyun e?iyorsun. Hitler'i Nietzsche'den, Napolyon'u da Pestalozzi'den daha iyi tan?yorsun. Sana göre bir kral, Sigmund Freud'dan daha önemlidir.

Truth is dangerous when it concerns you.

MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases tediosas, aceita apenas ações transparentes, palavras verdadeiras e o prazer do amor

Yet alongside this rebellion against the father, a respect for and acceptance of his authority continued to exist. This ambivalent attitude toward authority— rebellion against it coupled with acceptance and submission —is a basic feature of every middle-class structure from the age of puberty to full adulthood and is especially pronounced in individuals stemming from materially restricted circumstances.

Senin Führer'lerin, bütün açlar aras?ndan, k?z?l, beyaz ve kara olan açlar? ay?rt edebiliyor demek. Oysa biz biliyoruz ki insan denen tüm memeli hayvanlar?n açl?k çeken tek bir organ? vard?r...

Sevgi h?rs?zl??? yapmad?m ömrümde. Bir kad?n yaln?zca beni istedi?i ve ben de onu istedi?im için sar?ld?m ona; kendimi, senin yapt???n gibi "sergilemedim"; senin kafandaki pis dü?üncelerden hiçbiri yok bende küçük adam.

Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Ça??m?zdaki genel eziyetçi y?k?c?l?k do?al sevisel ya?ama vurulan amans?z ketlerin sonucudur.