Fromm is a surname that may refer to:
| Fromm | |
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| Family name | |
| Related names | Frommer, Fromme, Fromhold, Frum |
- Eric Fromm (born 1958), a former tennis player from the United States
- Erich Fromm (1900–1980), an internationally renowned German-American Jewish psychologist and humanistic philosopher
- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (born Frieda Reichmann, 1889–1957), psychoanalyst, doctor; the wife of Erich Fromm
- Friedrich Fromm (1888–1945), German army officer
- Julius Fromm (1883–1945), inventor of the seamless latex condom
- Paul Fromm (1906–1987), Chicago-based wine merchant and musical patron, Jewish refugee from the Nazis
- Pete Fromm, American novelist
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Famous quotes containing the word fromm:
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become “Golems,” they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“The mother’s and father’s attitudes toward the child correspond to the child’s own needs.... Mother has the function of making him secure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)