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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
