In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. – Erich Fromm
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – 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
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm