"If it is true, as I have tried……" — Erich Fromm

"If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem ofhuman existence, then any societywhich excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature."

— Erich Fromm

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