Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

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

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

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.

All failures are so because they lack social interest.

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 from among such individuals that all human failures spring.