All Erich Fromm Quotes
- The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. Character
- The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense… From
- Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for… Afford
- Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. Destructive
- Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store… Articulate
- When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. Blended
- We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization. Becoming
- Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead. Dead
- People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death. Centered
- Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness. Begins
- In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities… Atrocities
- The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of… Adjustment
- Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. Becomes
- Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for… Accompany
- Women are equal because they are not different any more. Any
- Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling… Animal
- Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines… Awareness
- To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops. Birth
- The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. Affirmation
- Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as… Alienated