Character Quote by Theodor Adorno

“We - society- inflict all sorts of injuries on people and then blame them for having scars. We sexualize and exploit and condemn them…

— Jonathan Maberry

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way…

— Gloria Steinem

“People caused harm to others because they were of malevolent disposition, that was shear human wickedness. something that has always existed and always would.Some…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures…

— Samuel Johnson

“Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to…

— Ernest Becker

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

“Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no…

— Peter R Breggin

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their…

— Henry Fielding

Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors.…

— Eckhart Tolle

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the…

— Phyllis Bottome

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To be human is inevitably, to hate oneself sometimes, to hunger for the perfect stability and in a way the perfect justice or at…

— John Gardner