Wilhelm Reich Quotes

Anything you're not in control of you can't be that comfortable with.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

Every true thinker for himself is so far like a monarch; he is absolute, and recognizes nobody above him. His judgments, like the decrees of a monarch, spring from his own sovereign power and proceed directly from himself. He takes as little notice of authority as a monarch does of a command; nothing is valid unless he has himself authorized it. On the other hand, those of vulgar minds, who are swayed by all kinds of current opinions, authorities, and prejudices, are like the people which in silence obey the law and commands.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I've never been a 'yes person.'

What's crazy is, my whole life I been a leader. I'm not a follower.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.