The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.
Erich FrommIt seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
Erich FrommThe sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
Erich FrommWe are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.
Erich Fromm