Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibi — David Smail, Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Se — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someo — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this i — Theodore J. Kaczynski

$What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governm — Liza Lugo, How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans$

A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along — Israelmore Ayivor

Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contempora — Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse

Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnes — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, t — Chrystine Oksana, Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse

When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear — S.F. Chandler, We The Great Are Misthought

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

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