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“Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.”
―Erich Fromm

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”
―Erich Fromm

“We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.”
―Erich Fromm

“Men are born equal but they are also born different.”
―Erich Fromm

“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.”
―Erich Fromm

“The call for law and order (rather than for life and structure) and for stricter punishment of criminals, as well as the obsession with violence and destruction among some revolutionaries, are only further instances of the powerful attraction of necrophilia in the contemporary world.”
―Erich Fromm

Source/Notes:
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)

“People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life physically and spiritually and not on the priorities of death.”
―Erich Fromm

“[Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.”
―Erich Fromm

“Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.”
―Erich Fromm

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.”
―Erich Fromm

Source/Notes:
Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics (1947)

“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.”
―Erich Fromm

“In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.”
―Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm

Born: March 23, 1900

Died: March 18, 1980 (aged 79)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Psychologist

Bio: Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Born on March 23

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