Erich Fromm Quotes

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

I never try to think I have the answer to what people should do or not do.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

I don't like to tell people what they should or shouldn't do.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

It's choice that makes us human.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Man must choose his world

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

I don't believe in rules. It's different for everybody. Everyone has to make their own decision and find out what's comfortable for them.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

Who gets to decide what you want?

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.