Erich Fromm

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Erich Fromm

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

Erich Fromm

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Erich Fromm

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Erich Fromm

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

Erich Fromm

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

Erich Fromm

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

Erich Fromm

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being – of becoming one with another being.

Erich Fromm

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Erich Fromm

If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a ‘pleasing personality’ – and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

Erich Fromm