"Our whole culture is based on the appetite……" — Erich Fromm
"Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. What specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values."
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261 Quotes by Erich Fromm
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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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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
— Lord Byron
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working…
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times,…
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