More Quotes by Erich Fromm
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
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.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
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.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
