Quotes from Wilhelm Reich

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...

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.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

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

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.

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.

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.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

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