"When I wrote The World Is Flat, I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo." — Thomas Friedman, American journalist, born 1953
"When I was growing up, my parents told me, Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving. I tell my daughters, Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." — Thomas Friedman, American journalist, born 1953
"Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900