"I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language."
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Erich Fromm quotes (page 22 of 22)
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"Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie , concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man."
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"The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education."
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"Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them."
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"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."
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"The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects."
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