{"author":"Erich Fromm","author_id":"Erich+Fromm","total_quotes":173,"quotes":[{"text":"If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance. But man, being only relatively malleable, has always reacted with protest against conditions which made the disequilibrium between the social order and his human needs too drastic or unbearable. The attempt to reduce this disequilibrium and the need to establish a more acceptable and desirable solution is at the very core of the dynamism of the evolution of man in history. Man's protest arose not only because of material suffering; specifically human needs...Are an equally strong motivation for revolution and the dynamics of change.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["change","culture","evolution","malleability","politics","receptiveness","resistance","revolution","society"],"id":2187,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["decision","feeling","fromm","love"],"id":3728,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["philosophy","psychology"],"id":9688,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"The more man gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an 'individual,' he has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world that destroys his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["freedom"],"id":11606,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["art","immaturity","love","maturity","need"],"id":16602,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["philosophy","psychology"],"id":18204,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being  it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself  since I am a human being too.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["introspection"],"id":18952,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"A society whose members are helpless need idols.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["inspirational","marxism","psychology","sociology"],"id":19197,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"Giving is the highest expression of potency.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["goodness","giving"],"id":30326,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one 'object' of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["philosophy","psychology"],"id":30931,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":173,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}