Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' -Erich Fromm Love
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 Mom
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. -Erich Fromm Power
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. -Erich Fromm Future
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. -Erich Fromm Art
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. -Erich Fromm Power
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? -Erich Fromm Education
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. -Erich Fromm Science
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. -Erich Fromm Environmental
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. -Erich Fromm Society
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 Morning
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? -Erich Fromm Age
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? -Erich Fromm Society
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 Life
