 The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. |
| War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. |
| 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. |
| Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. |
| The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. |
| We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. |
| The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. |
| The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. |
| 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. |
| It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. |
| My difficulties belong to me! |
| 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 easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. |
| 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. |
