"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
-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.'“
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"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
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"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
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"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
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