Quotes from Alfred Adler

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

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

To be human means to feel inferior.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

My difficulties belong to me !

There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

All our institutions, our traditional attitudes, our laws, our morals, our customs, give evidence of the fact that they are determined and maintained by privileged males for the glory of male domination. These institutions reach out into the very nurseries and have a great influence upon the child's soul.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

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.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.