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Carol Tavris has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you…
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
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In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to…
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In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and…
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Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
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During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they…
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Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.
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Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
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As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
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The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice…
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Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action…
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Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.
— Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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To the victors belong the spoils.
— Andrew Jackson
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more…
— Unknown Author
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom…
— Will Durant
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Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that…
— Kate Elliott
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History is the lies of the victors,
— Julian Barnes
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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to…
— Plato
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
— Robert Fisk
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There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors,…
— Matt Labash
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
— Carol Tavris
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished…
— Abba Eban
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