By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.
Erich FrommThe state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.
Erich FrommThe root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.
Erich FrommExploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.
Erich FrommAs long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
Erich Fromm