"Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its……" — Erich Fromm

"Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure."

— Erich Fromm

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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear,… — Nikola Tesla
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I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very… — E E Cummings
Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton. — James Cash Penney
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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