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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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
