“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is a sad commentary on our civilization, however, that war and suffering rather than peacetime living can mobilize human readiness to… — 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
