« Similar behaviours are observed in many psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and therapists. Of course, they don't use words like; bad, dirty, mean, selfish, depraved. Rather, they speak of "narcissistic," "exhibitionist," "destructive" or "borderline" patients, without seeing that they lend these words a depreciating meaning. It may be that their abstract vocabulary, their objective attitude, and even their theorizations and their passion for making diagnoses have something in common with the indignant looks of the mother of the boy (or girl) of 3 years, wonderfully adapted, buried in them. »

« Later, as an adult, a child with these gifts `of superior spirit` will be able to use extraordinary insight to criticize various ideologies . . . because in these cases he has his intellectual faculties intact. May within the group to which he belongs himself (an ideological current or a theoretical school, for example) that reflects the family situation of childhood, this being will retain a naïve docility and an inability to criticize that seem to disprove the brilliant qualities that it otherwise shows. `...` For example, Martin Heidegger was quite capable of distinguishing himself from traditional philosophy and in doing so abandoning the masters of his adolescence, while he was unable to detect the contradictions of Hitler's ideology that were to be evident in his intelligence. It is because he devoted to this ideology the infantile fascination and fidelity that do not allow criticism. »

« You can rape a child other than sexually: for example, I think of the form of rape practiced through indoctrination that underlies both "anti-authoritarian" and "good education" education. »