Quotable quotes

IronSharpensIron · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: Quotable quotes

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

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

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

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

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

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler

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

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, 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 a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few 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

To be human means to feel inferior.
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

A DUP demand for the humiliation of republicans is not only unacceptable, it will not happen and it has no place in a process of peace making.
Gerry Adams

Against mighty odds you held the line and faced down a huge military foe, the British Crown Forces and their surrogates in the unionist death squads.
Gerry Adams

And more than that, when elements within the British and Irish establishments and rejectionist unionism delayed progress, it was the IRA leadership which authorised a number of significant initiatives to enhance the peace process.
Gerry Adams

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams

But an accommodation - a partnership of equals - cannot be built through a process of humiliation.
Gerry Adams

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
Gerry Adams

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
Gerry Adams

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
Gerry Adams

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
Gerry Adams

I know full well that such truly historic decisions can only be taken in the aftermath of intense internal consultation.
Gerry Adams

I understand fully that the IRA's most recent positive contribution to the peace process was in the context of a comprehensive agreement.
Gerry Adams

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Gerry Adams

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
Gerry Adams

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
Gerry Adams

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
Gerry Adams

Now is the time for you to step into the Bearna Baoil again; not as volunteers risking life and limb but as activists in a national movement towards independence and unity.
Gerry Adams

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams

Since then - despite many provocations and setbacks - the cessation has endured.
Gerry Adams

Since then, there has been a vicious campaign of vilification against republicans, driven in the main by the Irish government.
Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
Gerry Adams

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
Gerry Adams

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
Gerry Adams

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
Gerry Adams

The DUP leader, Ian Paisley, also needs to face up to his responsibilities to join in the collective challenge of peace making.
Gerry Adams

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
Gerry Adams

The IRA is being used as the excuse by them all not to engage properly in the process of building peace with justice in Ireland.
Gerry Adams

The Ireland we live in today is also very different place from 15 years ago. There is now an all-Ireland agenda with huge potential.
Gerry Adams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
Gerry Adams

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.
Gerry Adams

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
Gerry Adams

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
Gerry Adams

There are many problems to be resolved by the people of Ireland in the time ahead.
Gerry Adams

Under the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement, parties have to vote for the nominees for the joint office of the First and Deputy First Ministers.
Gerry Adams

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
Gerry Adams

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Gerry Adams

You asserted the legitimacy of the right of the people of this island to freedom and independence. Many of your comrades made the ultimate sacrifice.
Gerry Adams

Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
Gerry Adams

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
Gerry Adams