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You are "free" only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.

— 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.

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)

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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