647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.