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Book: On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power
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  1. Erich Fromm _ On Disobedience: Why Freedom

    We are poor in spite of all our wealth because we have much, but we are little.' As a result, the average man feels insecure, lonely, depressed, and suffers from a lack of joy in the midst of plenty. Life does not make sense to him; he is dimly aware that the meaning of life cannot lie in being nothing but a 'consumer.' He could not stand the joylessness and meaninglessness of life were it not for the fact that the system offers him innumerable avenues of escape, ranging from television to tranquilizers, which permit him to forget that he is losing more and more of all that is valuable in life.
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  2. Erich Fromm _ On Disobedience: Why Freedom

    For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.
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  3. Erich Fromm _ On Disobedience: Why Freedom

    The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.
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  4. Erich Fromm _ On Disobedience: Why Freedom

    Capitalism puts things {capital} higher than life {labor}. Power follows from possession, not from activity.
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  5. Erich Fromm _ On Disobedience: Why Freedom

    Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.
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