More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
