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Doe Quotes by Erich Fromm
- The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result…
- The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in…
- Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains…
- 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…
- Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed…
- Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
- Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the…
- Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
- There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
- That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
- Freedom does not mean license.
- The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does…
- Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi