The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

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.

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

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.