Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never… — 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
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — 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 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
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are… — 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
Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes… — 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
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is… — 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
