Erich Fromm Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Country, Peace

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.68, 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

• In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

  Erich Fromm

  Baby, Real, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.56, Open Road Media

• Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.

  Erich Fromm

  Determination, War, Struggle

• We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the whole world is at stake. And yet, people know it - people read it in the newspapers, people read that at the first attack, a hundred million Americans might be killed. And yet, they talk about it as if they were talking about something being wrong with the carburetor of their car, perhaps.

  Erich Fromm

  War, Talking, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

  Erich Fromm

  War, Fall, Worried

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• 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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