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Individual Quotes by Erich Fromm
- The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
- Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
- 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…
- Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self…
- 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…
- I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the…
- All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.
- . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a…
- If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means…
- The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
- Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the…
- We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only…
- Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's…
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- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou