To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Erich FrommMan does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
Erich FrommWe have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.
Erich FrommIf we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.
Erich Fromm