Quote by Erich Fromm
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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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. – Erich Fromm

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power
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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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Consumerism
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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

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I learned about the markets power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100. – Jack Kemp

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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. – Margaret Atwood

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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. – Edward Gibbon

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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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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. – Archibald Wavell

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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. – Brit Hume

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Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium. – Anon.

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