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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
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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
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
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
