5 Erich Fromm Quotes on Power

Erich Fromm quotes on power

13. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

56. By necrophilia is meant love for all that is violence and destruction; the desire to kill; the worship of force; attraction to death, to suicide, to sadism; the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic by means of 'order.' The necrophile, lacking the necessary qualities to create, in his impotence finds it easy to destroy because for him it serves only one quality: force.

73. As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

90. 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.

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