"In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens."

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Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books

Judith Lewis Herman

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“I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.”
“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”
“I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.”

Source : "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.”

Source : "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.
“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”
“But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.”
“People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.”

Source : "Greta Van Susteren Slams CNN Over Holiday Layoffs: 'No "Heroes" In Management There!'" by Nicholas Graham, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2009.
“Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.”

Source : "Start-up Secrets: Tips from America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs". www.inc.com. September 28, 2009.

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