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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
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
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
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.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
