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.

— Alice Miller Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (1991)

More quotes by Alice Miller

Prisoners of Childhood / The Drama of the Gifted Child (1981)

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