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Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

Erich Fromm
Integrity, Mean, Identity

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

Erich Fromm
Life, Integrity, Believe
Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.101, A&C Black

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Erich Fromm
Soulmate, Integrity, Love You
Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.31, Routledge

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Erich Fromm
Integrity, Mean, Identity
Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.92, Lantern Books

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

Erich Fromm
Love, Wall, Integrity
ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .

Erich Fromm
Hurt, Integrity, Emotional
Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

Erich Fromm
Integrity, Men, Self
Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media

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