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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 danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
