Quote by Erich Fromm
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. – Erich Fromm

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Dreams
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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. – Erich Fromm

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Hope
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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Back to School
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I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. – Adriano Tilgher

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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. – Frank A. Clark

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Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: maximum economic growth generated by maximized corporate profit, fueled by mass production, fueled by mass consumerism. – David Edwards

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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. – Mahatma Gandhi

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More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. – Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports

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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. – Bertrand Russell

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When the news is good, the BBC view is: Get the government out of the picture quickly, dont allow them to say anything about it. When the news is bad: Lets all dump on the government. – Iain Duncan Smith

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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé

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