Wilhelm Reich quotes - page 3

What is new in work democracy is: that for the first time in the history of sociology, a possible future regulation of human society is derived not from ideologies or conditions that must be created, but from natural processes that have been present and have been developing from the very beginning. (Wilhelm Reich)
Natural work democracy is politically neither "left" nor "right." It embraces anyone who does vital work; for this reason, its orientation is only and alone forward.
Wilhelm Reich
There are very few people who experience sexual love without guilt feeling. "Free love" has acquired a degrading meaning: it lost the meaning given it by the old fighters for freedom. In films and in books, to be genital and to be criminal are presented as the same thing.
Wilhelm Reich
Every physician, shoemaker, mechanic or educator must know his shortcomings if he is to do his work and make his living.
Wilhelm Reich
To define freedom is the same as to define sexual health. But nobody will openly admit this.
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Work-democracy adds a decisive piece of knowledge to the scope of ideas related to freedom.
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You are "free" only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.
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They call you "Little Man", "Common Man"; they say a new era has begun, the "Era of the Common Man".
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When I say "animal," I do not mean anything bad, cruel or "base"; I am stating a biological fact.
Wilhelm Reich
The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.
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Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love. (Wilhelm Reich)
The Little Man does not want to hear the truth about himself. He does not want the great responsibility which is his. He wants to remain a Little Man.
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This point is accentuated in a world crisis where biopathic men hold in their hands power over ruined, destitute multitudes.
Wilhelm Reich
You will no longer believe that you "don't count." You will know and advocate your knowledge that you are the bearer of human society. Don't run away. Don't be afraid. It is not so terrible to be the responsible bearer of human society.
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You are Great, Little Man, when you are not small and petty.
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It is on your thinking and your actions that the future of humanity depends.
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It is an essential part of our social tragedy that people, like farmers, the industrial workers, the medical profession, etc., influence the social process not only by their work, but also - and even predominantly - by political ideologies.
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In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anybody else. To stress this guilt on the part of masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously.
Wilhelm Reich
You dare not think that you ever might experience your self differently: free instead of cowed; open instead of tactical; loving openly instead of like a thief in the night.
Wilhelm Reich
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion.
Wilhelm Reich
It remains to be seen what part politics will play in the eradication of the political emotional plague and what part the consciously organized functions of love, work and knowledge. (Wilhelm Reich)
In this strictly Marxist sense, the capitalistic system continues to exist in Russia. And it will continue to exist as long as the masses of people continue to lack responsibility and to crave authority.
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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.
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The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.
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If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means "going to the root of things," the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary.
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