"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears……" — Erich Fromm
"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask."
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261 Quotes by Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm has 261 quotes on this site.
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What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what…
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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I need you because I love you.
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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate…
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Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
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The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one…
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
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Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance…
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Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
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Giving is the highest expression of potency.
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate…
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More Ascend Quotes
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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we…
— Edwin Markham
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An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible…
— John Climacus
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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
— Mark Twain
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon…
— Francis Bacon
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I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes…
— Annie Dillard
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God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of…
— Max Lucado
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth,…
— Tim Conway
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