Erich Fromm Quotes

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.

I'm trying to make connections. That's all we do as human beings on the planet, isn't it? We try to connect.

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.