Quote

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

Alfred Adler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
Peace
Perpetrated
War
Continuation
Means
Antiwar
Mean
Mass
Different
Crime
Men
Greatest
Politics
Community

More quotes by Alfred Adler

Image
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
Image
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
Image
Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
Alfred Adler
Image
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler
Image
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.
Alfred Adler
Image
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
Alfred Adler
Image
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
Alfred Adler
Image
The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
Alfred Adler
Image
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Alfred Adler
Image
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
Image
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Alfred Adler
Image
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
Image
To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
Alfred Adler
Image
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
Alfred Adler
Image
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler
Image
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by facts but by our interpretation of the facts.
Alfred Adler
Image
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
Alfred Adler
Image
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
Image
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.
Alfred Adler
Image
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Alfred Adler