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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
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.
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.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
