“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed… — 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
People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the… — 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
Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper,… — 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
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question… — 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
