The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Erich FrommMan can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
Erich FrommWe are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Erich Fromm