Author of quotes: Erich Fromm. Page 2

Modern man thinks of something valuable - your time - it loses, if not doing something quickly; and he did not know what to do with him from the time he saved, but to kill him.

To prove that capitalism correspond to the natural needs of human, it was necessary to prove that man is by nature inclined to competition and is full of hostility to others. While economists "proved" it, mention insatiable lust for economic gain, and Darwinists, speaking of the biological law of survival of the fittest creatures, Freud came to the same result, believing that a man directs limitless desire sexual conquest of all women, and only public pressure prevented the realization of this desire.

Capital dominates labour; the accumulation of things, something that is dead, - has a higher value than the labor, human power - that now.

I am convinced that the answer to the question about the absolute incompatibility of love and the usual "normal" life sound, which is incompatible principles underlying capitalist society and love.

It is hardly surprising that in a culture where the prevailing market orientation and where material success is the outstanding value of human love relations follow the same patterns that drive the market.

Those who take love seriously, as the only reasonable response to the problem of human existence, have come to the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure, if love will become public, not only individual and marginal phenomenon.

Alienation breeds anxiety. It is the source of all troubles. To be alienated means to have no possibility to use their human strength. To be separate from all means to be helpless, unable to communicate with the world - objects and people... in addition, it [alienation] is a shame and the guilt.

The most widespread wrong opinion that to give means to give up something, to be deprived of something, to sacrifice. That's perceived act of giving a man whose character is not developed above the installation on the obtaining, using, accumulation. The man with the "market" psychology is willing to give in exchange for anything. To give, getting nothing in return, it means to him to be cheated...
For the productive character with the installation of productive activities giving has an entirely different meaning. Giving is the highest manifestation of power. In each act of giving I realize his power, his wealth, his power. This experience high viability and force fills me with joy.

A selfish person loves himself too much but too little, more than that - in fact he hates himself. Due to the lack of creativity that leaves him devastated and frustrerande, he is inevitably unhappy and therefore frantically tries to snatch from a life of pleasure to which he himself prevents.

You can often find two people who love each other and not experiencing more love than anyone. In fact, their love is selfishness two... Their experience of unity is an illusion.

If I have developed the ability to love, I can't help but love his brothers. In brotherly love there is the experience of unity with all people, of human solidarity, of human unity. Brotherly love is based on feeling that we are all one. Differences in talents, education, knowledge are not taken into account. The main thing here is the identity of human nature, common to all people.

"Division of labor", as it was called William James, in which a person loves only his family, but has no feelings for "someone else", means a fundamental inability to love.

If a person loves only one person and are indifferent to other people, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, in other words, enhanced egotism [exaggerated opinion about his personality, his virtues; self-love].

Love for people is of no consequence, as often assumed, and the premise of love for a certain person, although in terms of development, it is acquired in love to certain people.