A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.


To Have or To Be? (ed. Open Road Media, 2013) - ISBN: 9781480401945

Erich Fromm Quotes

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is ...

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is ...

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is ...

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is ...