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  1. Erich Fromm _ The Art of Loving

    Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called "equality."
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  2. Erich Fromm _ Escape from Freedom

    In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character.
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  3. Erich Fromm _ The Art of Loving

    Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one 'object' of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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  4. Erich Fromm _ Escape from Freedom

    As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power.
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  5. Erich Fromm _ To Have or to Be? The Nature

    Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as "love." "Love" is abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self-increasing.
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  6. Erich Fromm _ Escape from Freedom

    Human existence begins when the lack of fixation of action by instincts exceeds a certain point; when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms. In other words, human existence and freedom are from the beginning inseparable. Freedom is here used not in its positive sense of "freedom to" but in its negative sense of "freedom from", namely freedom from instinctual determination of his actions.
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  7. Erich Fromm _ Escape from Freedom

    The more man gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an 'individual,' he has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world that destroys his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.
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  8. Erich Fromm _ The Art of Loving

    If a person does not emerge from incestuous attachment to mother, clan, nation, if he retains the childish dependence on a punishing and rewarding father, or any other authority, he cannot develop a more mature love for God; then his religion is that of the earlier phase of religion, in which God was experienced as an all-protective mother or a punishing rewarding father. In
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  9. Erich Fromm _ Beyond the Chains of Illusion:

    Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man.
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  10. Erich Fromm _ Beyond the Chains of Illusion:

    My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.
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  11. Erich Fromm _ The Art of Being

    People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of losing themselves in the act of concentration on the non-self.
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  12. Erich Fromm _ The Art of Being

    Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance-or in insanity.
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