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
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards… — 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
Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a… — 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
We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent -… — 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
We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind… — 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
