Alice Miller: Quotes about children

Alice Miller was Swiss psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on children.

Alice Miller: 48 quotes 9 likes

“We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.”

Alice Miller

Children , People , World , Parent

“The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.”

Alice Miller

Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child

Children

“I cannot conceive of a society in which children are not mistreated, but respected and lovingly cared for, that would develop an ideology of forgiveness for incomprehensible cruelties. This ideology is indivisible with the command "Thou shalt not be aware" [of the cruelty your parents inflicted to you] and with the repetition of that cruelty on the next generation.”

Alice Miller

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)

Children , Forgiveness , Parent

“The possibility of change depends on whether there is a sufficient number of enlightened witnesses to create a safety net for the growing consciousness of those who have been mistreated as children, so that they do not fall into the darkness of forgetfulness, from which they will later emerge as criminals or the mentally ill.”

Alice Miller

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)

Children , Change , Dependency , Forgetting

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

Alice Miller

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)

Children , Parent