Psychology Child Abuse Quotes

#1. Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

Alice Miller

#2. Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Allen Ginsberg

#3. After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Dorothy Rowe

#4. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Stefan Molyneux

#5. Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

Stefan Molyneux

#8. We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

Stefan Molyneux

#9. The greater a child's terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Nathaniel Branden

#10. It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

John Scofield

#11. If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Stefan Molyneux

#12. Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

Daniel Mackler

#13. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Asa Don Brown

#15. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

#16. My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

Russell Brand

#17. We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Stefan Molyneux

#18. Asshole Proximity Disorder

Stefan Molyneux

#19. Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.

Alice Miller

#20. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Stefan Molyneux

#22. The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Robert W. Firestone

#23. Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Alice Miller

#24. We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Stefan Molyneux

#25. The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.

Stefan Molyneux

#26. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Stefan Molyneux

#27. A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ...

Asa Don Brown

#28. All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.

Stefan Molyneux

#29. A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

Alice Miller

#30. Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

David Bowie

#31. The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

Rick Bass