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“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one 鈥渙bject鈥� of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he sacrifices his life for the other鈥攂ut that he gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding, of his knowledge, of his humor, of his sadness鈥攐f all expressions and manifestations of that which is alive in him. In thus giving of his life, he enriches the other person, he enhances the other's sense of aliveness by enhancing his own sense of aliveness. He does not give in order to receive; giving is in itself exquisite joy. But in giving he cannot help bringing something to life in the other person, and this which is brought to life reflects back to him.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Modern man thinks he loses something鈥攖ime鈥攚hen he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains鈥攅xcept kill it.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern鈥攁nd to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking鈥攁nd that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...'

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Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. Pigs, you! All right, God damn you! I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. Blow yourselves to Christ gone or come and find me, Gully Foyle, and I make you men. I make you great. I give you the stars.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience鈥攜et willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim鈥攅xcept the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead. What is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this 鈥渃entral experience鈥� is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love. Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves. There is only one proof for the presence of love: the depth of the relationship, and the aliveness and strength in each person concerned; this is the fruit by which love is recognized.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot.

"Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

"Why can't we all move forward together?"

"Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow."

"Who leads?"

"The men who must...driven men, compelled men."

"Freak men."

"You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."

"Thank you very much."

"My pleasure, sir."

"You've saved the day."

"Always a lovely day somewhere, sir," the robot beamed. Then it fizzed, jangled, and collapsed.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything."

"You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children."

"Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open." Foyle laughed savagely. "I've ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. I've blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children what's best for them to know.... Let 'em all grow up. It's about time."

"Christ, he is insane."

"Am I? I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. The common man's been whipped and led long enough by driven men like us.... Compulsive men... Tiger men who can't help lashing the world before them. We're all tigers, the three of us, but who the hell are we to make decisions for the world just because we're compulsive? Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?"

"We're not saddled," Y'ang-Yeovil said quietly. "We're driven. We're forced to seize responsibility that the average man shirks."

"Then let him stop shirking it. Let him stop tossing his duty and guilt onto the shoulders of the first freak who comes along grabbing at it. Are we to be scapegoats for the world forever?"

"Damn you!" Dagenham raged. "Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good."

"Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live together or die together."

"D'you want to die in their ignorance? You've got to figure out how to get those slugs back without blowing everything wide open."

"No. I believe in them. I was one of them before I turned tiger. They can all turn uncommon if they're kicked awake like I was.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“Equality today means 鈥渟ameness,鈥� rather than 鈥渙neness.鈥� It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! The boredom of the chivalrous knights and their milk-maid passion for the fairy tale princess. But I'm not like that ... inside. I'm not. I'm not. Never. Make it a savage war between us. Don't win me ... destroy me!”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

“Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future. This awareness of himself as a separate entity, the awareness of his own short life span, of the fact that without his will he is born and against his will he dies, that he will die before those whom he loves, or they before him, the awareness of his aloneness and separateness, of his helplessness before the forces of nature and of society, all this makes his separate, disunited existence an unbearable prison. He would become insane could he not liberate himself from this prison and reach out, unite himself in some form or other with men, with the world outside.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Cellar Christians!" Foyle exclaimed. He and Robin peered through the window. Thirty worshipers of assorted faiths were celebrating the New Year with a combined and highly illegal service. The twenty-fourth century had not yet abolished God, but it had abolished organized religion.

"No wonder the house is man-trapped," Foyle said. "Filthy practices like that. Look, they've got a priest and a rabbi, and that thing behind them is a crucifix."

"Did you ever stop to think what swearing is?" Robin asked quietly. "You say 'Jesus' and 'Jesus Christ.' Do you know what that is?"

"Just swearing, that's all. Like 'ouch' or 'damn.'"

"No, it's religion. You don't know it, but there are two thousand years of meaning behind words like that."

"This is no time for dirty talk," Foyle said impatiently. "Save it for later. Come on.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the 鈥渉igher power鈥� of nature.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

“Yet in his own estimate, one theme in particular dominated all others: the growing tyranny of the majority, the ever-increasing and most formidable barriers raised by the majority around the free expression of opinion, and, as a result, the frightening oneness of American thinking, the absence of eccentricity and divergence from the norm.

A perfect liberty of the Mind exists in America, said Tocqueville, just as long as the sovereign majority has yet to decide its course. But once the majority has made up its mind, then all contrary thought must cease, and all controversy must be abandoned, not at the risk of death or physical punishment, but rather at the more subtle and more intolerable pain of ostracism, of being shunned by one's fellows, of being rejected by society.

Throughout history kings and princely rulers had sought without success to control human thought, that most elusive and invisible power of all. Yet where absolute monarchs had failed, democracy succeeds, for the strength of the majority is unlimited and all pervasive, and the doctrines of equality and majority rule have substituted for the tyranny of the few over the many the more absolute, imperious and widely accepted tyranny of the many over the few.”
― Richard D. Heffner, Democracy in America

“We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response . . . mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World: well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually, yet without self, without any except the most superficial contact with his fellow men, guided by the slogans which Huxley formulated so succinctly, such as: 鈥淲hen the individual feels, the community reels鈥�; or 鈥淣ever put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today,鈥� or, as the crowning statement: 鈥淓verybody is happy nowadays.鈥� Man鈥檚 happiness today consists in 鈥渉aving fun.鈥� Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and 鈥渢aking in鈥� commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies鈥攁ll are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones鈥攁nd the eternally disappointed ones. Our character is geared to exchange and to receive, to barter and to consume; everything, spiritual as well as material objects, becomes an object of exchange and of consumption.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Big Cheese”
― Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interviews

“袛芯褔褍褏, 褔械 褌邪褟 褋褍褌褉懈薪 薪褟泻芯谢泻芯褋褌芯褌懈薪 写褍褕懈 褋褌械 锌褉懈斜褉邪谢懈. 袩褉邪胁懈谢薪芯 褋褌械 锌芯褋褌褗锌懈谢懈 , 写褉褍谐邪褉懈. (袪褗泻芯锌谢褟褋泻邪薪懈褟.) 袧械泻邪 锌芯 褌褉懈 锌褗褌懈 薪邪 薪芯褖 写邪 褋械 褋褌褉褟褋泻邪褌 胁褉邪谐芯胁械褌械 薪邪 薪邪褕懈褟 薪邪褉芯写.(袪褗泻芯锌谢褟褋泻邪薪懈褟.) [...] 袛褉褍谐邪褉懈, 褋械谐邪 褖械 锌芯褔褍胁褋褌胁邪褌 芯褖械 械写懈薪 锌褗褌 胁褉邪谐芯胁械褌械 薪邪 薪邪褕邪褌邪 褋褌褉邪薪邪, 懈 胁褗褌褉械褕薪懈 懈 胁褗薪褕薪懈, 褔械 褏邪蟹褟懈薪 胁 薪邪褕邪褌邪 褋褌褉邪薪邪 褋械谐邪 懈 薪邪 胁械褔薪懈 胁褉械屑械薪邪 械 褉邪斜芯褌薪懈褔械褋泻邪褌邪 泻谢邪褋邪 薪邪褔械谢芯 褋 袘袣袩! (袩褉芯写褗谢卸懈褌械谢薪懈 褉褗泻芯锌谢褟褋泻邪薪懈褟.) 袙锌褉芯褔械屑, 谐芯褉械 谐谢邪胁邪褌邪, 写褉褍谐邪褉懈!”
― 袘芯褉懈褋谢邪胁 小泻芯褔械胁, 袣芯薪褑谢邪谐械褉褗褌 鈥炐懶敌恍敌叫碘€�, 1949-1987: 袨褋褌褉芯胁褗褌, 泻芯泄褌芯 褍斜懈 褋胁芯斜芯写薪懈褟 褔芯胁械泻

“I think a lot of this kind of work goes on at other (to say lower, deeper, or higher introduces a false gradation) levels, when one is saying how-do-you-do, or even 'sleeping'.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Story of Kullervo