Famous Erich Fromm Quotes

  • Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. – Erich Fromm

    Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.– Erich Fromm

  • Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown. – Erich Fromm

    Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.– Erich Fromm

  • Love is a power which produces love. – Erich Fromm

    Love is a power which produces love.– Erich Fromm

  • The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness. – Erich Fromm

    The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.– Erich Fromm

  • The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things. – Erich Fromm

    The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.– Erich Fromm

  • We are what we do. – Erich Fromm

    We are what we do.– Erich Fromm

  • Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. – Erich Fromm

    Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.– Erich Fromm

  • Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm

    Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.– Erich Fromm

  • The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life. – Erich Fromm

    The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.– Erich Fromm

  • They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity. – Erich Fromm

    They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.– Erich Fromm