All Erich Fromm Quotes
- A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants… Acquisition
- Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware… Agent
- Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and… All
- As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the… Answers
- Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which… Descends
- That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In… Act
- Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life. Destructiveness
- Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life. Hate
- Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know… Act
- We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the… Degree
- The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present. Bring
- Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based… Based
- The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to… Came
- A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress… Advertising
- If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but… Another Person
- You have to stop to change direction. Change
- To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen… Brainstorming
- Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. Both
- Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life. Active
- In times of change, learners inherit the earth Change