Quote by Erich Fromm
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of t

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. – Erich Fromm

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

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Love
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We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. – Erich Fromm

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Dreams
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. – Erich Fromm

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. – Havelock Ellis

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The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic… power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. – Russell Baker, New York Times, 1 May 1969

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Society

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. – Brit Hume

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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. – Ian Somerhalder

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Society

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. – William Blake

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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. – Arthur Henderson

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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. – Chinese Proverb

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke

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