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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

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.

I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.