The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.
Author: Erich Fromm
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.
There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.
Love is union with somebody or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Love is union with somebody or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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.
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.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved.
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.
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.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.