Quotes by Alfred Adler

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth."

"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."

"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."

"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."

"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."

"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."

"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."

"Man knows much more than he understands."

"Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations."

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."

"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."

"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."

"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."

"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."