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