Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. Erich Fromm More Quotes by Erich Fromm More Quotes From Erich Fromm I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism. Erich Fromm opposites mean people I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital. Erich Fromm citizens organization mean If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism. Erich Fromm socialism states lying The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism. Erich Fromm ownership socialism states I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are. Erich Fromm real war believe There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm feeling envy moral hate
