"A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "fo...
They were more free, but they were more alone.
More Erich Fromm quotes
"The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, tec...
"The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgment of the validity of t...
"In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-alm...
"The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.
"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
"Life has ceased to be lived in a closed world the center of which was man; the world has become limitless and the same time threatening. By losing his...
"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardiz...
"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.
"Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
"Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of t...
"The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the ...
"If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's...
"To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.
"the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frus...