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Irrational Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
- If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to…
- Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
- There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
- Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and…
More Irrational Quotes
- A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will… — Nabeshima Naoshige
- How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? — Alan Greenspan
- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy
- But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand
- Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang
- Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes… — Thane Rosenbaum
- Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Unknown Author
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis