The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The child starts out by being attached to his mother as "the ground of all being." He feels helpless and needs the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Care and concern imply another aspect of love; that of responsibility. Today responsibility is often meant to denote duty, something imposed upon… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in… — 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
