“... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.”

“Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.”

“Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know.”

“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”

“To me, the ideological high wire is for fools to balance on with their illusions. It is better to leap into the void.Isn't that what we all want anyway?—to eliminate all pretense till like the oppressed who in the endidentifies with the oppressor, we accept the worst in ourselves and are set free.”

“Growing up in a home where children continually witness abuse and violence will leave them living every day feeling anxious and depressed, and they will suffer from physical and emotioinal problems throughout their childhood. But worst of all, they will be highly likely to grow up to raise children of their own who will continue the tragic cycle of family violence. (Taken from the tc book BLOOD HIGHWAY)”