From Alice Miller's
"The Body Never Lies":
These patterns of childhood will inevitably then be adopted by their victims and used on their partners and their own children, at work, in politics, wherever the fear and anxiety of the profoundly insecure child can be fended off with the aid of external power. It is in this way that dictators are born; these are people with a deep-seated contempt for everyone else, people who were never respected as children and thus do their utmost to earn that respect at a later stage with the assistance of the gigantic power they have built up around them. (pg 28)
Excerpt from
Alice Miller
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
WW Norton, New York, NY (2004)
Alice Miller
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
WW Norton, New York, NY (2004)
