"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
-Erich Fromm
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"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'“
-Erich Fromm
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
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"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist."
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