Anna Salter

“People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning.…

— Anna Salter

“We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must…

— Anna Salter

“I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I…

— Anna Salter

“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive…

— Anna Salter

“Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation…

— Anna Salter

“Humor is probably species specific”

— Anna Salter

“Malevolence takes a bite out off your spirit. Just sitting with it, just talking with people who consciously and deliberately exploit others,…

— Anna Salter

“The people who support and defend those accused of child sexual abuse indiscriminately, those who join organizations dedicated to defending people who…

— Anna Salter

“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night…

— Anna Salter

“Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, and offenders too little. Our…

— Anna Salter

“In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided I made, and…

— Anna Salter