Lindsey

“It is not uncommon for the youngest child to outstrip every other member of the family and become its most capable member.”
― Alfred Adler, Understanding Human Nature: The Psychology of Personality

“Only too many human beings have acquired the habit of recognizing an authority without testing it. The public wants to be fooled. It wants to swallow every bluff without subjecting it to rational examination. Such activity will never bring any order into the communal life of mankind but will lead only, again and again, to the revolt of those who have been imposed upon.”
― Alfred Adler, Understanding Human Nature

“A mature person is one who, having attained his majority, is able to make choices and decisions based on accurate perceptions about himself, others, and the context in which he finds himself; who acknowledges these choices and decisions as being his; and who accepts responsibility for their outcomes.”
― Virginia Satir, Peoplemaking

“Liberal theory, however, doesn’t have to demonstrate the difference. It only has to show that moral decisions on matters of public policy in a pluralist and democratic state are satisfied, or justified, by a particular political test: the “ability to gain assent from people who retain radically diverse ideas about the point and meaning of human life, about the path to private perfection.”43 Appeals to the will of God through quoting the Bible, church doctrine, and ecclesiastical authorities, fail this test for public values because”
― Richard Rorty, An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion