Wilhelm Reich

“The neurotic character is a person who is 'armored' against his own nature.”

“Fascism is the emotional expression of the armored character structure.”

“The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.”

“The suppression of natural sexuality in children, particularly genital sexuality, makes the child apprehensive, shy, obedient, afraid of authority.”

“Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.”

“The truth is what hurts.”

“The moralistic prohibition of natural sexuality is the main source of all kinds of perversions.”

“The establishment of a lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”

“The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of nature.”

“We are dealing with a human structure which is incapable of freedom, and which has been incapable of freedom for thousands of years.”

“It is the fear of living that is the real problem.”

“Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.”

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire... must, by all means, be safe, if the word 'freedom' should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

“The armor of the character is the sum total of the muscular attitudes which a man develops as a defense against the breaking through of his emotions.”

“I know that in the battle of ideas, the truth will prevail.”

“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”

“The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.”