The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler

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

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

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

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

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler

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

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

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

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Alfred Adler

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

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

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