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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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.
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
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.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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.
