The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent -… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. … For the man… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see"… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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