Erich Fromm

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.