Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.
Erich FrommThe 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 FrommThe revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
Erich FrommIn the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.
Erich Fromm