"Even the most sadistic and destructive man is……" — Erich Fromm
"Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint."
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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 Destructive Quotes
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive…
— Alain Badiou
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the…
— Albert Bandura
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I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
— Russell Brand
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Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
— A. S. Byatt
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For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way…
— Nicolas Cage
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive…
— Nick Cave
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
— William Cobbett
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they…
— Carl Jung
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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