647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.Â

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.

If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences, that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, I perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood.

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

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.