Erich Fromm Quotes About Hate

Quotes about: Hate

• Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Hate, Products

• That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Hate, Men

• Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

  Erich Fromm

  Hate, Men, Choices

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.37, Routledge

• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Revenge

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

• It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Hate, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.58, Open Road Media

• I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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