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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 (1933)
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)
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.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
In the strictly Marxist sense, there is not even in Soviet Russia a state socialism but a state capitalism.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
You are "free" only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature — in the good sense of the word — will he create genuine culture.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality — both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
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)
Natural work democracy is politically neither "left" nor "right." It embraces anyone who does vital work; for this reason, its orientation is only and alone forward.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
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)
Work-democracy adds a decisive piece of knowledge to the scope of ideas related to freedom.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.
Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf [The Sexual Revolution (1936)
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)