Quote by Erich Fromm
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life

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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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. – Erich Fromm

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Society
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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Back to School
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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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Equality
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. – Thomas Paine

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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. – Marcus Aurelius

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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. – Charles Evans Hughes

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

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History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. – Henry Glassie

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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph De Maistre

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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. – Erica Jong

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer

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