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Quotes from Escape from Freedom — Erich Fromm

1900–1980 Germany

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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Escape from Freedom (1941)

Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Escape from Freedom (1941)

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Escape from Freedom (1941)

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Escape from Freedom (1941)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Erich Fromm (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.