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We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

— Alice Miller

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

— Andrew Vachss

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

— Amanda Harlech

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

— Betty Williams

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

— Wilhelm Reich

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

— Ralph Steadman

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

— R. D. Laing

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

— Adam Ferrara

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

— Sharon Salzberg

✗Opposing Perspectives

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

— John Catsimatidis

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

— Isabella Bird