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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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
