Erich Fromm

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.