Erich Fromm Quotes

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

We too love the fatherland, maybe more than those who have spread the rumors about us. But above the love to the fatherland, we put the love for the whole mankind. But is it not more noble and more beautiful to love the whole world than to restrict the love to only a small piece

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

The religion of humanity is love.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

What unites us is an unconditional love for France.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

The "State" was substituted for humanity; cosmopolitan gave way to nationalism.