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« We know how much Hitler used to fascination with women. In their eyes, he embodied the figure of the father who knows exactly what is right and what is wrong, and he also offered them an outlet for the hatred they had accumulated as children. It was this combination that earned Hitler the crowds of men and women who rallied to him. For all these beings had been trained in obedience, they had been raised in the sense of duty and Christian virtues; they had to learn early on to suppress their hatred and needs. »
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Alice Miller
It's for your own good. |
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Alice Miller
It's for your own good.
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« I do not aspire to a Paradise that makes obedience and ignorance the condition of bliss. I believe in the power of love, which, for me, does not mean to be well-behaved and obey. Love does not go without fidelity to oneself, to one's feelings and needs. And the aspiration for knowledge is one of them. God clearly wanted to deprive Adam and Eve of this fidelity to oneself. »
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Alice Miller
Free to Know: Opening Our Eyes to Our Own History |
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Alice Miller
Free to Know: Opening Our Eyes to Our Own History
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« Sensitive beings do not allow themselves to be transformed overnight into exterminators. But in the application of the "final solution" these were men and women who could not be stopped by their own feelings, because they had been educated from the cradle not to feel their own emotions but to live the desires of their parents as their own. As children, they had been proud to be hard and not to cry, to "joyfully" do all their tasks, not to be afraid, in other words, in the background: not to have an inner life. »
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Alice Miller
It's for your own good. |
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Alice Miller
It's for your own good.
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