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  • Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

    Men  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.189, Open Road Media
  • Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature.

    Men  
  • The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.349, Routledge
  • Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media
  • The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

  • Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

  • Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you that the experience of humanism is that — as Terence expressed it — “Nothing human is alien to me”; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and I am the saint. I am the child and I am the adult. I am the man who lived a hundred thousand years ago and I am the man who, provided we don't destroy the human race, will live hundred thousand years from now.

    Men  
    "On Being Human".
  • We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.

  • I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

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  • I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion.

    Men  
    Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.103, A&C Black
  • Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

  • Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.166, Open Road Media
  • I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

    People  
  • Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.31, Routledge
  • To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

    Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.22, Lantern Books
  • The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.30, Open Road Media
  • I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are.

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  • If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.142, Open Road Media
  • 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.

    Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.26, A&C Black
  • I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

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  • We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

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  • Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge
  • It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

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  • Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

    Men  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media
  • Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.400, Open Road Media
  • The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media
  • The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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  • It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Religion”, p.111, Open Road Media
  • The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

    Men  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.23, Open Road Media
  • The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud”, p.188, Open Road Media
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