Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton.

— Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm Quotes

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

— Erich Fromm
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Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

— Erich Fromm
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Freedom does not mean license.

— Erich Fromm

Love is a power which produces love.

— Erich Fromm

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

— Erich Fromm

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

— Erich Fromm

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

— Erich Fromm

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

— Erich Fromm

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

— Erich Fromm

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

— Erich Fromm

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

— Erich Fromm

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

— Erich Fromm

Man always dies before he is fully born.

— Erich Fromm

Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

— Erich Fromm

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

— Erich Fromm

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

— Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

— Erich Fromm

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

— Erich Fromm

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

— Erich Fromm

People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love, power, fame, revenge. Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

— Erich Fromm
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