The aim of sadism is to transform a man …

The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Erich Fromm

The most beautiful as well as the most u…

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Erich Fromm

Today I begin to understand what love mu…

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists…. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Erich Fromm