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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
Truth
Lie
Aggression
Murder
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Temper
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Alfred Adler
Will
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Alfred Adler
War
Brothers
Murder
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
Politics
War
Community
Man
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.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Agitation
Being
Conquest
Feeling
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler
War
Cooperation
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler
War
Enemy
Future
states
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.
Alfred Adler
Love
Law
Man
Mankind
Years
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler
Truth
Lie
Sense
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler
Work
Society
Sex
Behavior
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
Nature
Peace
Science
Soul
Goal
Being
Human nature
Mind
Understanding
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler
People
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler
Fiction
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.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Agitation
Conquest
Feeling