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Them Quotes by Erich Fromm
- It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
- Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store…
- Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for…
- I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department…
- We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
- 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…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
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