“Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.” MenShouldResultsCreativeAwarenessGenuineIntenseResponsiveness Author:Erich Fromm
“Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.” IfsPersonsDoeSometimesMatterSadnessWhat Matters Author:Erich Fromm
“I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.” FeelsStatesIndividualDecisionDemocracyCitizensResponsibleDecision MakingOrganizational Author:Erich Fromm
“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.” ThinkingMeanHelpingRealityTodayDemocracyConsentAvenuesMadisonMadison Avenue Author:Erich Fromm
“I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.” ThinkingSeeingCapableAimBlindTrackFollowingPursuitAlleys Author:Erich Fromm
“I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.” ThinkingMenUseOrderEmotionModernProduceEmotionalTrackProductionsIntellectBrilliantTechniqueCleverSplitsVery CleverEmotional Life Author:Erich Fromm
“I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.” PeopleMeanTodayOppositesAddSocialismSocialist Author:Erich Fromm
“I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.” MeanWholeUseIndividualSocialCitizensOrganizationAimProfitProductionsSocialismEmployedSocial Organization Author:Erich Fromm
“If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.” IfsStatesLyingCapitalismClaimsSocialismSocialist Author:Erich Fromm
“The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.” StatesIndustrySocialismOwnership Author:Erich Fromm