I believe that freedom is not a constant attribute that "we have" or "we don't have"; perhaps there is only one reality: the act of liberating ourselves in the process of using choices. Every step in life that heightens the maturity of man heightens his ability to choose the freeing alternative.
I believe that "freedom of choice" is not always equal for all men at every moment. The man with an exclusively necrophilic orientation; who is narcissistic; or who is symbiotic-incestuous, can only make a regressive choice. The free man, freed from irrational ties, can no longer make a regressive choice.


Credo (1965)

Erich Fromm Quotes

I believe that freedom is not a constant attribute that we have or we don't have; perhaps there is only one reality: the act of liberating ourselves...

I believe that freedom is not a constant attribute that we have or we don't have; perhaps there is only one reality: the act of liberating ourselves...

I believe that freedom is not a constant attribute that we have or we don't have; perhaps there is only one reality: the act of liberating ourselves...

I believe that freedom is not a constant attribute that we have or we don't have; perhaps there is only one reality: the act of liberating ourselves...