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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?
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
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.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
