The quotations of

Wilhelm Reich

Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist

1897–1957

11 quotes, most often on Freedom, Love and Knowledge.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V: The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique
- Love
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
His motto, in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1933)
You are afraid of life, Little Man, deadly afraid. You will murder it in the belief of doing it for the sake of “socialism,” or “the state,” or “national honor,” or “the glory of God.”
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
- Fear
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.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 1: Ideology As Material Power, Section 4: The Social Function of Sexual Suppression
- Freedom
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 1: Ideology As Material Power, Section 4: The Social Function of Sexual Suppression
- Sex
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.
Response to FDA complaint (1954)
- Freedom
- Knowledge
Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
The Function of the Orgasm (1942)
- Health
- Love
The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (enlarged 3rd ed., 1942), Ch. 10: Work Democracy
- Freedom
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.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Preface to the Third Edition (August 1942)
- Politics
You are “free” only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
- Freedom

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