More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little 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.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
