Erich Fromm Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• 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 paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Needs, Tragic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.166, Open Road Media

• Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.170, Open Road Media

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