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Quote by Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm

Other quotes by Erich Fromm

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

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Adversity
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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. – Erich Fromm

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Nature
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Politics
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle

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Politics

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side. – Jack Kemp

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Politics

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Politics

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Politics

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Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time. – N.J. Rubenking

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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, Am I a sex symbol? Then I go back to bed again. Its stupid to think that way. – Antonio Banderas

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Morning

If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the Today programme and item four on the news was: The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership. I lay there thinking thats interesting, then I realised it was me. – George Osborne

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Experience