145 Quotes by Wilhelm Reich

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

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.

If ‘freedom’ means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature – in the good sense of the word – will he create genuine culture.

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

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of ‘God’ are pointing to one and the same reality.

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?

It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power.

Most of what official adolescent psychology considers the “characteristics of puberty,” turn out in character-analytic work to be the artificially produced effect of obstructed natural sexuality. This holds true for daydreaming as well as for inferiority feelings.