I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Illegality Law

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.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich 1969 Authoritarianism Democracy Dictatorship Soviet Russia Totalitarianism

Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight, sham democracy is insidious.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Democracy Dictatorship

One cannot equate capitalism and democracy.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Capitalism Democracy

Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion of world economy, is so far advanced that racial purity can have meaning only to a numbskull.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich 1969 Antisemitism Ethnic Nationalism Fascism Globalization Imperialist Interbreed Miscegenation Multiculturalism Nazism Race Theory Racial Purity Racism White Supremacy

Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and less tangible form, in all strata of people. The degree of mystical, sentimental and sadistic feelings corresponds exactly to the degree of the disturbance of natural orgastic experience. Close observation of the audience of a trashy thriller or of a boxing match teaches more about these problems than a hundred handbooks of sexology.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Boxing Matches Disturbances Mysticism Sadism Sentimentalism Sexology Sexuality Thrillers

I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t like. And you feel yourself as the ‘homo normalis’. You have locked up crazy people, and the normal people manage this world. Who then is to blame for all the misery? Not you, of course, you only do your duty, and who are you to have an opinion of your own? I know, you don’t have to repeat it. It isn’t you that matters, Little Man. But when I think of your newborn children, of how you torture them in order to make them into ‘normal’ human beings after your image.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Abnormal Abnormality Blame Crazy Diagnosis Insane Madness Mental Illness Normal Sanity

Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that others think and act generously, kindly and helpfully, in accordance with the laws of life. This natural attitude, fundamental to healthy children as well as primitive man, inevitably represents a great danger in the struggle for a rational way of life as long as the emotional plague subsists, because the plague-ridden impute their own manner of thinking and acting to their fellow men. A kindly man believes that all men are kindly, while one infected with the plague believes that all men lie and cheat and are hungry for power. In such a situation, the living are at an obvious disadvantage. When they give to the plague-ridden they are sucked dry, then ridiculed or betrayed.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Charity Exploitation Oppression Orgonem Emotional Plague

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

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Chaos Living Theory

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

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich God Believe People

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.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich Character Powerful Reality