Erich Fromm Quotes About Manipulation
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Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
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Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.
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What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.
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Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.
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The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.
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