“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.” IfsFirstsMeanIndividualSocialFreedomExistenceResponsibilityGreaterDeterminationRationalEstablishment Author:Wilhelm Reich
“You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.” ThinkingMeanTodaySocialGoalHoursStepsPathRevolutionTomorrowMiseryJustifyProvenEvery StepInhumanInhumanityUnattainableSocial RevolutionAfter Hours Author:Wilhelm Reich
“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.” IfsKnowsMenShouldHumansMeanPoliticalFreedomEmotionSafeEmptyErrorsSlogansHuman Emotions Book:Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy
“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
“You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.” ThinkingMeanEndsTodaySocialStepsAchieveTomorrowJustifyMeannessInhumanInhumanityUnattainableUpheavalEnds Justify The Means Author:Wilhelm Reich
“You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. 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; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.” IfsThinkingMenLifeMeanChildrenImportantFeelingsLinesLove IsPartyOpinionTeacherSecurityPoliticianCostMen And WomenPaidHarmonyOur ChildrenBe GoodSecureYour ChildrenLicensePublic OpinionSpineLife HappinessYour Freedom Author:Wilhelm Reich
“Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology” MeanIdeologyCollapseAwakenedSexually Author:Wilhelm Reich
“People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.” PeopleShouldMeanChildrenReasonMotherNightFatherDemandCarefulOne NightCertificates Book:Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957 Source: Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957
