"The lust for power is not rooted in……" — Erich Fromm

"The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness."

— 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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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