Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
Erich FrommThe essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.
Erich FrommJewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.
Erich Fromm. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.
Erich Fromm