I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue.
Erich FrommIf a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich FrommI would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.
Erich Fromm