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You worship the Christ child. The Christ child was born of a mother who had no marriage certificate. What you worship in the Christ child, you poor little marriage-ridden man, is your own yearning for sexual freedom!

— Wilhelm Reich Listen, Little Man! (1948)

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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.

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

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Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

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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.

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