What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. – Erich Fromm
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