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• A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Dangerous Situations, Anxiety, Want

  "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.

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

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Pioneers, Sides

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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

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  Men, Sadism, Social

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• 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

  Running, Men, Leader

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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

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  Slave, Hallmark, Insolence

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• You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Determination, Freedom, Mean

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• 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.

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  Reality, Thinking, Law

  Wilhelm Reich (1951). “Cosmic Superimposition: Man's Orgonotic Roots in Nature”

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• The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.

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  Dream, Men, Long

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

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  Men, Essentials, Problem

  Wilhelm Reich (1953). “Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, the Emotional Plague of Mankind. Documentary Volume”

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• We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

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  Public Opinion, Experts, Mastery

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• The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

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  Discovery, Energy, Firsts

  "Ether, God and Devil". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1949.

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Character, Reality

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in sociological disputes leads me to expect that a great many people will take offense at the disclosure of this miscalculation. It makes the highest demands on people's will to veracity; it puts a heavy burden on everyday living; it places all social responsibility on those who work, be it in the factory, in the office, on the farm, in the laboratory, or wherever.

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  Responsibility, Long, People

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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

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  Artistic, Abstinence, Interest

  Wilhelm Reich (1969). “The sexual revolution: toward a self-governing character structure”

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• 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.

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  Running, Fire, Long

  Writings by Wilhelm Reich, April 19, 1951.

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• 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.

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  Practice, Development, Fields

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• 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.

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  Religious, Believe, Love Life

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• Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Generations, Might, Enough

  "Orgonotic Pulsation in International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research", Vol. 3, No. 1, March, 1944.

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• In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

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  Truth, Fighting, Profound

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• 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.

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  Emotional, Realms, Humans

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, World, Want

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

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  Space, Chaos, Theory

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• 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.

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  Democracy, Wish, Doe

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate.

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  Christian, Determination, Children

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