It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

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

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

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