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Book: The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
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  1. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance. But man, being only relatively malleable, has always reacted with protest against conditions which made the disequilibrium between the social order and his human needs too drastic or unbearable. The attempt to reduce this disequilibrium and the need to establish a more acceptable and desirable solution is at the very core of the dynamism of the evolution of man in history. Man's protest arose not only because of material suffering; specifically human needs...are an equally strong motivation for revolution and the dynamics of change.
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  2. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    Umut kendi içinde çelişkilidir {paradoksaldır}. Ne edilgin bekleyiştir, ne de gerçekleşmesi olanaksız koşulların gerçekçi olmayan bir şekilde zorlanmasıdır. Atlama anı geldiğinde sıçrayacak olan çömelik bir kaplana benzer umut. Ne yorgun reformculuk umudun bir anlatımıdır ne de sözümona köktenci serüvencilik. Umut etmek demek, henüz doğmamış şey için her an hazır olmak, ama doğumun, bizim yaşam sürecimiz içinde gerçekleşmemesi halinde umarsızlığa, umutsuzluğa düşmemek demektir.
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  3. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    Davranışı yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yalnızca şimdiki zamanda gerçekleştirilen davranışı anlamakla kalmayız, bir kişinin değiştirilmiş koşullar altında nasıl davranabileceği konusunda da akla uygun varsayımlarda bulunabiliriz.
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  4. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    Ancak, tam anlamıyla kendisi olmaya doğru bir adım atmaya çalışan herkes, korkusuzluk yönünde yeni bir adım atıldığında, çok kesin bir güç ve sevinç duygusunun uyandığını bilir. Yeni bir yaşam evresinin başlamış olduğunu duyumsar. Goethe'nin dizelerindeki hakikati hissedebilir: "Evimi bir hiçliğin üzerine kurdum, bu yüzden bütün dünya benimdir.
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  5. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record of human history is concerned- and visualized something which can be called universally human and which is not identical with what a particular society assumes human nature to be. There were always men who were bold and imaginative enough to see beyond the frontiers of their own existence.
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  6. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders.
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  7. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status quo for the better, it changes for the worse. Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begin to decay.
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  8. Erich Fromm _ The Revolution of Hope: Toward

    We should free ourselves from the narrowness of being related only to those familiar to us, either by the fact that they are blood relations or, in a larger sense, that we eat the same food, speak the same language, and have the same " common sense." Knowing men in the sense of compassionate and empathetic knowledge requires that we get rid of the narrowing ties of a given society, race or culture and penetrate to the depth of that human reality in which we are all nothing but human. True compassion and knowledge of man has been largely underrated as a revolutionary factor in the development of man, just as art has been. It is a noteworthy phenomenon that in the development of capitalism and its ethics, compassion {or mercy} ceases to be a virtue.
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