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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