Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

- Erich Fromm

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

- Erich Fromm

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome h…

- Erich Fromm

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and…

- Erich Fromm

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'f…

- Erich Fromm

If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If th…

- Erich Fromm

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

- Erich Fromm

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the er…

- Erich Fromm

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

- Erich Fromm