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Quotes from Breaking Down the Wall of Silence — Alice Miller

1923–2010 Poland

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Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (1991)

Hard as it is to believe, in the entire world there is not a single faculty in which a degree is offered in the study of psychic injuries in childhood.

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (1991)

If one day the secret of childhood were to become no longer a secret, the state would be able to save immense sums that it spends on hospitals, psychiatric clinics, and prisons maintaining our blindness. That this might deliberately happen is almost too incredible a thought.

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.