More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?