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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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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Greed
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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. – Erich Fromm

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The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. – Jerry Rubin

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. – Benjamin Disraeli

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power

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. – Ida Tarbell

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