"Education makes machines which act like men and……" — Erich Fromm

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."

— Erich Fromm

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261 Quotes by Erich Fromm

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What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what…
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
I need you because I love you.
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate…
Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one…
Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance…
Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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