Wilhelm Reich Quotes

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Sociometric status is a powerful determinant of health.

As much as we don't like to admit it sometimes, we are the influencers.

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

Now you’re thinking like me. A little eye-gouging, some slit nostrils…I could seriously get into that. (Acheron)

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.

See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. I have told my boss, remove the force and instead put a TV in every home. Everything will be automatically sorted out.

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.