More Quotes by Erich Fromm
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
