Adler Quotes

“The power-hungry individual follows a path to his own destruction.”

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler”

“The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.”

“The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.”

“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.”

“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.”

“The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.”

“FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.”

“If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.”

“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”