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It is on your thinking and your actions that the future of humanity depends.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Political ideological systems are based on conceptions of the natural life process.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
You are Great, Little Man, when you are not small and petty.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
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.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
What has to be explained is not the fact that the man who is hungry steals or the fact that the man who is exploited strikes, but why the majority of those who are hungry don’t steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don’t strike.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness, of others' strength and greatness.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
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.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
The Little Man does not want to hear the truth about himself. He does not want the great responsibility which is his. He wants to remain a Little Man.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.
On March 20, 1956, 10 P.M. a thought of a very remote possibility entered my mind, which I fear will never leave me again.
Contact with Space (1957)
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.
The history of science is a long unbroken chain of elaboration, deviation, and rectification, re-creation, followed by reassessment, renewed deviation and rectification, and renewed creation. It has been a long, arduous course, and we have hardly begun.
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily...
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
They call you "Little Man", "Common Man"; they say a new era has begun, the "Era of the Common Man".
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
You dare not think that you ever might experience your self differently: free instead of cowed; open instead of tactical; loving openly instead of like a thief in the night.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
The growth of this consciousness of social responsibility is the most important prerequisite for the prevention of the cancer-like growth of political systems in the social organism.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
It is not beyond actual possibilities that men from outer space have landed (or will in the future land) on earth and have begun to breed here for whatever reason they may have had.
Contact with Space (1957)
The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
It is the negation of the pleasures of the body that serves as the living source of the religious view, and is the axis of every religious dogma. This is especially evident in the religions of Christianity and Buddhism.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
It is an essential part of our social tragedy that people, like farmers, the industrial workers, the medical profession, etc., influence the social process not only by their work, but also — and even predominantly — by political ideologies.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)