All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
Erich FrommThe most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich FrommThe manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.
Erich FrommWhat you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.
Erich Fromm