Alfred Adler Quotes

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

Alfred Adler

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• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Will
  • Islam

• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • America
  • War

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • War
  • Help
  • Win

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • War
  • Civil War

• When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • War
  • End
  • Loser

• I am not an enemy of Adventism.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Enemy
  • Adventism

• The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Science

• History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • History
  • Forever

• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • War
  • Living
  • Only

• We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • War
  • Think
  • Against

• Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Experience
  • War

• President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • War
  • Peace
  • End

• I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • Want
  • Feel

• At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Work
  • Country
  • Career

• Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

  

  Neal Schon

• Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they the U.S. government have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country...

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Islamic

• Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Giving

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

  

  Alfred Adler
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Preparing