What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – 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
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. – Erich Fromm
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay