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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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. – Erich Fromm

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. – Erich Fromm

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Consumerism
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He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. – Author Unknown

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It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. – Robert A. Cook

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The best things in life arent things. – Art Buchwald

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Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. – Adriano Tilgher

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