Erich Fromm Loving Quotations

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. 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.