Erich Fromm Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Block, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

• Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Lying, Power

  "The Art of Loving".

• The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

  Erich Fromm

  Power, Lust, Weakness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.166, Open Road Media

• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

• The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

  Erich Fromm

  Fear, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.18, Lantern Books

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