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

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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.
Alfred Adler

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

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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.
Alfred Adler

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

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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

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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

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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.
Alfred Adler

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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

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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred Adler

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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

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

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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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