Good and evil Quote by Erich Fromm Download Open image “The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.” — Erich Fromm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good and evil Inspirational Lust Lust for power Power Rooted Strength Weakness
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ability to choose weakness over power is a capacity for sacrifice, and that sacrifice is love in action. To be weak is to… — Luke Bell Copy Share Image
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“When external sources of power are sought in personal relationships to overcome inner feelings of powerlessness, power comes not from a place of strength… — Mark Rosen Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and… — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Copy Share Image
“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands the lower… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
“Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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