Erich Fromm Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

  Erich Fromm

  Quality, Looks, Authority

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.108, Open Road Media

• Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

  Erich Fromm

  Sides, Authority, Irrational

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.18, Open Road Media

• Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim-- except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Independent, Men

• The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Fighting, Neurosis

  Erich Fromm (1947). “Man for Himself”

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