A Quote by Wilhelm Reich

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

Wilhelm Reich

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Average Character Fascism Form Human Irrational Pure Reactions Sum Sum Total Total

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Wilhelm Reich
Austrian - Psychologist
March 24, 1897 - November 3, 1957

You're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor.

Timothy Spall

Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut.

Sidney Greenberg

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Jacob Bronowski

I don't have any single character that is my favorite because I would like to be known for the sum total of my work and not for an individual character that I might have played.

Pankaj Kapur

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

R. Buckminster Fuller

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

George Saunders

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

Elihu Burritt

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

Albert Camus

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

Erik Naggum

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

Kelley Armstrong

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

Max Lucado

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

Albert Meltzer

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

P. D. James

Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.

Derek R. Audette

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.