SSWILHELM
REICH, The Function of the Orgasm
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.
WILHELM
REICH, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
No
man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or
projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be
empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which
it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm
of creation and decline of all things natural.
WILHELM
REICH, response to FDA complaint, Feb. 22, 1954
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.
WILHELM
REICH, Children of the Future
Only
the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can
master their sadistic destructiveness.
WILHELM
REICH, The Function of the Orgasm
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.
WILHELM
REICH, Listen, Little Man!
The
suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of
substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes
brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in
imperialistic wars.
WILHELM
REICH, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
It
is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and
thinking.
WILHELM
REICH, The Sexual Revolution
Psychic
health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which
one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the
natural sexual act.... Psychic illnesses are the result of a
disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
WILHELM
REICH, The Function of the Orgasm
And
the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual
feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express.
WILHELM
REICH, Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals, 1934-1939
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.
WILHELM
REICH, Listen, Little Man!
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.
WILHELM
REICH, Listen, Little Man!
You
are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great
man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one
important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his
thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear
to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes
from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and
in what he is a little man.
WILHELM
REICH, Listen, Little Man!
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.
WILHELM
REICH, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Love,
work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also
govern it.
WILHELM
REICH, The Function of the Orgasm
Mistaking
insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
WILHELM
REICH, Listen, Little Man!
In
its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions
of the average human character.
WILHELM
REICH, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Most
intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the
same.
WILHELM
REICH, attributed, Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of
Wondering (Christian, 2005)
Man's
right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to
investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word
FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
WILHELM
REICH, response to FDA complaint, Feb. 22, 1954
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?
WILHELM
REICH, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
I
consider it an error in scientific communication that, most of the
time, merely the polished and flawless results of natural research
are displayed, as in an art show. And exhibit of the finished product
alone has many drawbacks and dangers for both its creator and its
users. The creator of the product will be only too ready to
demonstrate perfection and flawlessness while concealing gaps,
uncertainties and discordant contradictions of his insight into
nature. He thus belittles the meaning of the real process of natural
research. The user of the product will not appreciate the rigorous
demands made on the natural scientist when the latter has to reveal
and describe the secrets of nature in a practical way. He will never
learn to think for himself and to cope by himself.
WILHELM
REICH, Ether, God and Devil
See
yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and
representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man."
Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and
"common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!
WILHELM
REICH, Listen, Little Man!
I
know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you
think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your
integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of
you.
WILHELM
REICH, Listen, Little Man!
Not
until man is willing to recognize his animal nature — in the good
sense of the word — will he create genuine culture.
WILHELM
REICH, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Rooting
in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm
will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of
empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.
WILHELM
REICH, writings, Apr. 19, 1951
Revolutionary
practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one
comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in
siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive
development.
WILHELM
REICH, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
The
pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical.
WILHELM
REICH, The Function of the Orgasm
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.
WILHELM
REICH, The Function of the Orgasm
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