647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

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    Fortitude is the capacity to say no when the world wants to hear yes.

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    Giving is the highest expression of potency...Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

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    To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment.

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    Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you

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    Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.

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    As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears athicker mask.

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    Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner.

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    Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you

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    Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of title love.

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