Wilhelm Reich

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.

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

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

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

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate each other or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all lifes 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.

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

Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world.

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.

Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man.

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

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.