All Erich Fromm Quotes
- 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
- Man absolutely cannot live by himself. Absolutely
- Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges… Absurd
- I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department… All
- Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Authority
- All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the… Accomplished
- To be concentrated means to live fully in the present. Concentrated
- The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters… Activity
- It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of… Accustoms
- In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Act
- Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in… Act