Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm on love
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm on love
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. Erich Fromm on love
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. Erich Fromm on love
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm on love
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. Erich Fromm on men
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm on mom
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm on morning
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. Erich Fromm on nature
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm on peace
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm on politics
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm on power
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm on power
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm on relationship
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm on science
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. Erich Fromm on society
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm on society
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm on mothersday
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love Erich Fromm on love
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself. Erich Fromm on love