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I contend to be a fighter for pureness and truth. I hesitate, because I am afraid of you and your attitude towards truth. To say the truth about you is dangerous to life.

— Wilhelm Reich

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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.

The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

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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