I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.

In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. . . The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.

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

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.