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Thorstein Veblen
“The abjectly poor, and all those persons whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.”
― Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

“the enemy is not the Muslim, the Christian, or the Jew, but stupidity itself”
― Jihad Jerry

Wilhelm Reich
“... apart from its function as communication, human language also often functions as a defense. The spoken word conceals the expressive language of the biological core. In many cases, the function of speech has deteriorated to such a degree that the words express nothing whatever and merely represent a continuous, hollow activity on the part of the musculature of the neck and the organs of speech. On the basis of repeated experiences, it is my opinion that in many psychoanalyses which have gone on for years the treatment has become stuck in this pathological use of language. This clinical experience can, indeed has to be applied to the social sphere. Endless numbers of speeches, publications, political debates do not have the function of getting at the root of important questions of life but of drowning them in verbiage.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis

Wilhelm Reich
“Most of what official adolescent psychology considers the "characteristics of puberty," turn out in character-analytic work to be the artificially produced effect of obstructed natural sexuality. This holds true for daydreaming as well as for inferiority feelings.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It takes courage to knowingly read a book that is challenging some of your cherished beliefs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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