Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is… — 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
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom"… — 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
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud.… — 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
