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Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

Erich Fromm
Responsibility, Elements, Care
Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.

Erich Fromm
Responsibility, Love Is, Care

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

Erich Fromm
Responsibility, Independence, Identity
Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.61, Routledge

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

Erich Fromm
Responsibility, School, Knowing
Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media

We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

Erich Fromm
Country, Responsibility, Thinking
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