Nature of man Quotes by Erich Fromm

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.

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I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers…

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The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries…

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“The question is the same, for it springs from the same ground: the human situation, the conditions of the human existence. The…

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“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or…

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Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the…

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If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be…

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We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we…

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Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace,…

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The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and the saint. I am the child and the adult. I am the man who lived 100000 years ago and the man who…

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“We should free ourselves from the narrowness of being related only to those familiar to us, either by the fact that they are blood relations or, in a larger sense, that we eat the same food, speak the same language, and have the same “ common sense.” Knowing men in the sense of compassionate and empathetic knowledge requires that we…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world…

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Freedom does not mean license.

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“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of the person. It presupposes the attainment of a predominantly productive orientation; in this orientation the person has overcome dependency, narcissistic omnipotence, the wish to exploit others, or to hoard, and has acquired faith in his own…

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose…

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Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into…

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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, empty… Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not…

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“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously wrong. When Churchill announced at the beginning of the Second World War that what he had to demand from the British was blood, sweat, and tears, he did not deter them, but on the contrary, he…

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By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch…

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“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,…

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“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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