“The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.” KindWarNaturalExampleEssentialsMassVariousPsychologicalFactorsSubstitutesAggressionBrutalGratificationSuppressionSadism Author:Wilhelm Reich
“The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.” PeopleStatesCharacterIndividualMassCapitalismStructureRussiaCapitalistHelplessTypicalAlteredEliminationReplacements Author:Wilhelm Reich
“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. 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.” IfsShouldYearsHumansPastThreeSocialSexNaturalAnswersDemocracyVictoryMassHundredDiscoveryDemocratInternationalObviousBackgroundsFascismEconomistIntercourseFascistsSocial LifeCorrespondingPestilence Author:Wilhelm Reich
“Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.” FeelingsBeliefMassArgumentProofStressed Author:Wilhelm Reich
“Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.” KindMeanEndsFeelingsFightingNaturalChurchConsciousnessEnemyInfluenceMassConceptsSexualityRegulationDogmaMysticalLife Means Author:Wilhelm Reich
“The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace.” MenWarEnoughSufferingResponsibilityAuthorityMassCapableMen And WomenResponsibleGood ThingsEtcLastingBad ThingsAnti WarApathyCraving Author:Wilhelm Reich
“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.” PeopleIfsWould BeGamesEnergySportsFreedomMusicComedyMovementFootballMassMusicalAverageRationalPsychicsMaking ChangesCivil Rights MovementInvincibleFootball GameInvincibility Author:Wilhelm Reich
