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Social Quotes by Erich Fromm
- A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants…
- Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware…
- 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…
- 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.
- As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from…
- Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
- Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He…
- . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a…
- Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can…
- The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with…
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- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet