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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
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.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
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
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.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
