Laura

“Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.”
― Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
― Tyler Kent White

“Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss”
― Sigmund Freud

“Many psychiatrists, including psychoanalysts, have painted the picture of a "normal" personality which is never too sad, too angry, or too excited. They use words like "infantile" or "neurotic" to denounce traits of types of personalities that do not conform with the conventional pattern of a "normal" individual. This kind of influence is in a way more dangerous than the older and franker forms of name-calling. Then the individual knew at least that there was some person or some doctrine which criticized him and he could fight back. But who can fight back at "science"?”
― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom