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Power Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with…
- The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
- Love is a power which produces love.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
- The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
- The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened…
- ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our…
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
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