Erich Fromm Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Future, Past, Men

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

  Erich Fromm

  Anger, Future, Past

  The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

• As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Past, Clouds

• I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, War, Believe

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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