"The only truly affluent are those who do……" — Erich Fromm
"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
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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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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds…
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on…
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A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply…
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of…
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More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled…
— John W. Gardner
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances,…
— Maurice Strong
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It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about…
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house…
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I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were…
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick.…
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In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity…
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