Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self. – Erich Fromm
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. – Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. – Erich Fromm
I tell again the oldest and the newest story of all the world, — the story of Invincible Love! This tale divine — ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young as the passing hour — has forms and names various as humanity. – Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891