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“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”

Erich Fromm · Love

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

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