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Quotes from The Problem of Ego Identity — Erik Erikson

1902–1994 Germany

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When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

The Problem of Ego Identity (1956)

Doubt is the brother of shame.

The Problem of Ego Identity (1956)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Erik Erikson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.