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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mothers side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. – Erich Fromm

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Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. – Erich Fromm

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Mans main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. – Erich Fromm

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

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The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. – Kenneth Kaunda

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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. – Joseph Addison

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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. – Barney Frank

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