In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm Copy Share
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge. — Erich Fromm Copy Share
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
“Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes, what one… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
