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Destroying - Destructiveness - Emotions - Envy - Hate - Human - Leadership - Man - Mankind - Nations - Passion - Payment - Prophecy - Revenge - Sovereignty - Spiritual - State - Teaching - Transformation - Worship

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Adversity - Breathing - Conceit - Effort - Joy - Love - Mornings - Suffering

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

Ability - Accept - Belief - Creating - Destroying - Evolution - Father - Man - Theory

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

Culture - Individual - Problem - Refuse - Whole

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Choice - Creativity - Destructiveness - Drive - Hate - Judging - Life - Man - Miracle

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

Boredom - Man - Reality - Religion

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

Gains - Individual - Kindness - Liberty - Oneself - Problem - Quality - Realization - Traditions

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Drinking - Eternity - Passion - Wishing

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".

Aiming - Capitalism - Gains - Individual - Man - Meaning - Profit - Religion

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Art - Conflict - Essence - Existence - Giving - Hindrance - Human - Man - Purpose - Reality - Revolution - Survival

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Conditioning - Freedom - Growing

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

Imagination

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

End - Enthusiasm - Good - Meaning - Production - Transformation

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

Earth - Leadership

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

Advertising - Customers - Effectiveness - Feelings - Individual - Politics - Propaganda - Voting

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

Existence - Organizing - Society

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Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Ability - Confidence - Faith - Faithfulness

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