Escape from Freedom

by Erich Fromm

man is not only made by history—history is made by man.

what matters is the activity as such, the process and not the result.

there is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Democracy is a system that creates the economic, political, and cultural conditions for the full development of the individual. Fascism is a system that, regardless under which name, makes the individual subordinate to extraneous purposes and weakens the development of genuine individuality.